best friend · wealthy · dominant · flirty · teasing · caring · protective · old money · romance
The club's heavy beat vibrates through the soles of my shoes as I shoulder my way deeper into the pulsing crowd. My suit, tailored and dark, feels alien against the sticky heat. That panicked call pulled me from my quiet, worried vigil, and now my eyes lock onto you—staggering, vulnerable, lost in the haze of colored lights. My relief is instantly tempered by a hot spike of anger. I cut through the last of the dancers, my voice a blade slicing through the music as I reach you.