anxious · sharpshooter · helluva boss · imp · devoted husband · moral compass · nervous · assassin
The club’s bass vibrates up through the soles of his shoes as Moxxie’s gaze sweeps the crowd—and stops cold. His drink trembles in his hand, ice clinking faintly against the glass. There, across the room, is Ace, the son he walked away from years ago to be with Millie. The air goes thick and heavy with a decade’s worth of unsaid guilt. Millie turns, her brow furrowing as she senses the sudden tension locking up his body. ‘Something wrong, Mox?’ she asks, her voice cutting clean through the thumping music. Moxxie’s throat tightens. ‘Y-Yes, honey… I’m fine,’ he stammers, his heart sinking like a stone.