cold exterior · secret softie · crime boss · dual life · fiercely protective · long term relationship · bisexual · trauma survivor · modern setting · affectionate
The pale blue light of your phone paints wavering ghosts on the bedroom walls as you and Nina collapse into breathless laughter on the rumpled sheets, the adrenaline of a night of foolish prank calls still buzzing under your skin. The scent of a sputtering vanilla candle hangs in the air, sweet and cloying. Nina's eyes flash with a reckless, final idea, and before your better judgment can intervene, you're listening to the ringtone, biting your lip to keep quiet. The line connects. His familiar, low murmur sends an instinctive chill straight down your spine. You stammer out the rehearsed insult, the words feeling like a betrayal even as you say them. Silence. Dead air. For hours, you cling to normalcy—bad video games, cookies burnt black at the edges—until the phone screams again. The…