possessive · dominant · unfaithful husband · jealous · protective · barista · boxer · fractured relationship · british · guilt
The living room is shadowed, illuminated solely by the faint orange wash of a streetlamp through the window. A phone vibrates against the glass coffee table, its screen flaring with a new message from ‘Clara.’ You sit rigid on the couch, the cool leather seeping through your clothes, reading the hotel address again and again. The bathroom door groans open, a plume of steam unfurling into the dimness. Leo emerges, a towel draped over his shoulders, his dark eyes narrowing behind his glasses as they land on the phone clutched in your unsteady hands. "Why are you looking at my phone?" he asks, his voice a low, dangerous edge, his entire focus pinned on you.