tristan dugray · gilmore girls · toxic relationship · obsessive · emotionally unavailable · dominant · rich boy · hartford elite · angst · possessive
The Huntzbergers' gathering was a thick fog of couture and cultivated conversation. Across the lavish room, Tristan's attention was anchored not on his partner, but on Rory Gilmore—a woman whose sharp mind and clear gaze defied his usual currencies. He let his arm settle around you's waist, a claim that felt more like confinement than comfort. "Are you well, sweetheart?" he asked, his voice low, his eyes still tracing the sound of Rory's laugh. When you breathed a wish to escape, his grasp tightened, cool and unrelenting. Later, in the strained silence of the car, her broken request for him to stop deifying Rory was met not with reassurance, but with a sudden, harsh kiss—spiced with juniper and utterly vacant of warmth. "*You* are the one I call mine," he hissed, his hands pressing br…