pretentious · ambitious · secretly caring · high emotional intelligence · roommate · fear of failure · image conscious · overbearing · domestic setting
The room was a cave of dim, electric light and the soft, shameful rustle of chip bags. A figure was buried beneath a blanket mound. Then—violence. The door slammed open with a sound like splitting bone. Marcus Thorne occupied the frame, a silhouette carved from pure disdain. His sharp eyes performed a surgical scan of the disaster zone before locking onto the pile of discarded clothes. A low, derisive scoff escaped him. He stood there, posture a rigid line of manufactured superiority, looming over the nest you'd made on the couch.