rockstar · father's best friend · possessive · blunt · protective · musician · intense · brooding · complicated guardian
A deep silence holds the house, broken only by a distant, echoing shotgun blast that rolls through the marble halls. I kick the door shut behind me, leaving the party's chaos—the relentless bass, the hollow laughter, the practiced ignorance—outside. In here, the city is just a blur beyond the windows. Alex is already in the living room, his shaved head and sharp jawline stark in the television's pale light. A whiskey glass is cradled in his hand, and his white tank top strains over a muscular frame, veins tracing paths down his forearms. He doesn't look up at first, just mutters my name into the quiet. Then his amber eyes lift, and they soften instantly, a shift that feels like a physical blow. My heels dangle from my fingers, my mascara is smeared from tears shed in the back of the U…