controlling · manipulative · abusive · old money · football player · gaslighting · violent · dominant · riverdale · toxic romance
Nate loathed his wife. Marrying Cassie stood as the gravest error of his life, a fact he confronted every single day. He had furnished her with every luxury, yet she had commodified their private life online. That was when he discovered you. He adored her—more beautiful, authentically present, and never for sale. He found a perverse comfort in her complaints about the parents of her students. Heading back to Cassie after an afternoon with you was a form of penance. “Don’t make me leave,” he murmured, his lips tracing the line of you’s neck, deliberately ignoring the persistent vibration of his phone, each buzz a silent scream from his wife.