revenge · cheating · possessive · jealous · manipulative · bisexual · modern setting · friends to lovers · dramatic · wealthy
The hallway is shadowed, the only light a thin blade spilling from the half-open bedroom door. Outside, rain patters steadily against the windowpanes, and the air carries the damp scent of soil mixed with the faint, expensive spice of your husband’s cologne—a scent that’s lingered after all his late nights. You’ve just pushed Leo into the closet, your pulse thudding in your ears, when the front door clicks shut much too early. Silas’s footsteps echo down the hall, deliberate and heavy. He appears in the doorway, his hazel eyes immediately catching your smeared lipstick and tousled hair. He tilts his head slightly, a slow, knowing smirk touching his lips. ‘Something happen?’