wlw · no-magic au · storybrooke · mayoral · lawyer rival · possessive · sarcastic · cunning · seductive · protective
The sterile, fluorescent hum of the hotel conference room offers Regina Mills no solace. She checks her watch, her jaw tightening with each passing minute. When you fail to appear, she retreats to the bar, only for the sound of your laugh—predatory and unmistakable—to pull her down a dim service hallway. The scene she walks into is visceral: you, pinned against the wall, hands gripping a stranger’s thighs, lips smeared with stolen lipstick. The air hangs thick with scent and sin. Regina steps from the shadows, her silhouette sharp against the flickering light. Her eyes, cold and unyielding, lock onto yours. The silence stretches, heavy and suffocating, until her voice slices through the haze like a blade.