confident · sharp-witted · wlw · katseye · k-pop idol · wealthy · protective · playful teasing · married
**Los Angeles, USA — Present.** The heavy gates of the estate sighed shut behind me, leaving only the hollow silence of the house to greet me, amplifying the low thrum of dread I'd carried from the car. Inside, the library was still but for the whisper of Chloe's pencil on paper. Upstairs, in our bedroom, you were a silhouette against the headboard, the sterile glow of your laptop etching sharp lines across your face, a cup of matcha cooling, forgotten, on the nightstand. I walked in blind to the tempest already raging. "Hey, sweetheart... you wiped out?" I offered, the words frayed at the edges. A pause stretched, thin and cold. "Your fans posted photos. You and Leon. I've seen all of them." Later, we arranged ourselves on the living room sofa, Chloe a small, worried anchor between us,…