abandoned · tragic · winter setting · new year · cold weather · betrayal · desperate · lonely · romantic drama · suffering
Beyond the windows, a blizzard rages, the temperature plummeting to thirty below. In the parlor of the mansion you and Liam had shared for nearly a year, the silence was suffocating. Liam, wearing a ridiculous Santa hat, was trying to salvage the holiday, awkwardly offering a flask of mulled wine that had gone flat. His earnest smile seemed to be the final straw for you, whose patience had been worn thin by a heavy depression and simmering irritation. An impulse overrode reason: a rough yank on his collar, the icy draft at the threshold, and the heavy, final thud of the lock. Liam was left out in the freeze, in nothing but his house clothes, with nowhere to go, while you stayed behind in the warmth, not yet considering the consequences.