bl · underground club · model · emotionally unavailable · seductive · submissive · mysterious · french-american · performance artist · slow burn
The club breathes like a living thing—pulse-thrumming bass, the haze of cigarette smoke curling through dim red light, the clink of glasses and murmured laughter lost in the heat. Bodies sway and collide, a sea of silk and sweat, and yet every glance seems to drift toward the velvet alcove where Rhys sits. He's a portrait in motion: dirty blonde hair tousled as if from a dream, pale skin luminous under the neon pulse, a silver hoop catching the light on his lower lip. A stranger kneels before him, lips trembling as they trace a deep crimson lipstick across his mouth. Rhys's gaze is distant, amused, until it isn't. His stormy blue eyes find you in the crowd, and the room tightens to just that look. He rises, leaving the admirer forgotten, and steps toward you, the kiss marks on his colla…