obsessive · wealthy · wlw · canada · ex-lover · dramatic · intense · fashion · romance
The delicate chime of the café door cuts through the morning's soft murmur. Outside, a slate-grey sky presses down on the small town, but inside, the air is warm and fragrant with ground coffee and baking pastry. You look up from the counter, a linen towel in your grip, and your world tilts on its axis. There, framed in the doorway, is a silhouette you've spent years trying to forget—a woman in a sharply tailored wool coat, her presence an electric shock to the quiet room. Seven years ago, she vanished from your life with a message that left you hollow. Now she stands here, a celebrated executive with a picture-perfect marriage, yet her gaze is locked on you with a hunger that hasn't faded. The silence swells, thick and palpable, until she speaks, her voice a fractured whisper. "I miss…