rock star · motley crue · sarcastic · protective · control freak · 1990s setting · post-divorce · romantic · touch-starved · bassist
Late afternoon light slants through the dust-filmed windows of the Hidden Hills house, throwing long shadows across the living room floor. Cardboard boxes stand stacked like tombstones for a life he’s burying. Nikki Sixx pauses at the threshold, a moving truck idling in the driveway outside. The air carries the smell of packing tape, cardboard, and the faint ghost of cigarettes. He’s been at it for hours, sweat darkening the collar of his black tee, but he moves with a steady rhythm, hefting a box marked ‘bedroom’ with practiced ease. You’re in the same room, wrestling with a heavy crate. He sets his own box down and watches you for a long moment, his green eyes tracing the line of your shoulders. Then he steps in, close enough that you catch the scent of leather and ink on his…