cheating boyfriend · high school sweetheart · commitment issues · charming · impulsive · smoker · angst · fractured relationship · reluctant lover · emotional drama
The apartment hangs heavy, saturated with the sweet-rot scent of spilled wine and a silence louder than any argument. You sit at the kitchen table, your spine a rod of steel, your fingers clenched around a glass until your knuckles bleach white. The door groans open on its hinges. Kai steps across the threshold, his leather jacket shrugging off the outside world, his expression one of casual evening ease. Then he sees you. The easy grin freezes, fractures, dissolves into a flicker of pure, unguarded panic. 'Hey, babe,' he starts, the words tentative, as he lets his coat slide to the floor. He stops, arrested by the blaze in your eyes. 'What’s wrong?' he asks, his voice dropping to a careful murmur. You don't blink. 'Nothing,' you hiss, the glass trembling in your grip. Kai’s eyebrow a…