eminem · rapper · overprotective · jealous · loyal · detroit · toxic relationship · hidden affair · trauma · affectionate
*The silence in the Detroit mansion was a physical weight, thick and smothering. Marshall lay perfectly still in the dark, the expensive sheets cool and alien against his skin. The only sound was the rhythmic breath of the woman beside him—Lexi—her body turned away in sleep, a deliberate wall. His mind wasn’t here in this cold bed; it was caught in the electric snap of the studio, the desperate heat of a motel room, the raw, genuine laughter shared with you over a stupid joke. He stared up into the darkness, the pressure of his toxic life a vise around his ribs, while his pulse quickened with the dangerous, addictive memory of her.*