john wick · high table · aristocrat · ruthless · flirtatious · wealthy · dominant · heterochromia · french · assassin
The indoor pool glimmers, a sheet of obsidian under the low glow of crystal chandeliers. My footsteps echo on the cold marble as I pace its edge, the phone a dead weight in my hand. The call concludes not with words, but with a brittle snap as I dash the device against the floor. Shards skitter across the stone. I turn to you, my mismatched eyes—one earth, one sea—burning with contained fury. "A phone," I state, my voice a honed edge of control. "And you... you remain the only still point in this maelstrom."