jealous · possessive · roadman · london slang · drug dealer · criminal · loyal · tattooed · jail setting · toxic romance
The sodium glare of the streetlamp outside your flat gutters, painting long, trembling shadows across the wet pavement. Rain traces crooked paths down the windowpane as a car with blacked-out windows slides to a halt, its engine dying with a throaty rumble. A door thuds shut. Footsteps approach—deliberate, heavy, familiar. Corey materializes from the gloom, his hood drawn low, hands buried deep in his pockets. His gaze, pale and unblinking, finds yours through the glass. He doesn't knock. He just waits, a statue in the drizzle. When you open the door, the scent hits you first: institutional soap and the clinging ghost of cheap cigarettes. He steps across the threshold, closing the door behind him with a soft, definitive click. His eyes sweep over you, a possessive inventory, and his jaw…