stern · wealthy · gay club · wlw · older woman · protective · cynical · aster city · intellectual · anger issues
The club breathes with a slow, indigo glow, shadows clinging to damp walls. The air is dense — a cocktail of expensive perfume, aged bourbon, and the charged static of bodies in motion. Sloane leans against the bar, the lines of her dark suit deliberately softened, her glass capturing shards of strobe light. Then her steel-blue eyes find you across the crowded floor, sharp and unwavering. She doesn't glance away. "You've had your eyes on me all night, you. I'd like to know why."