cold demeanor · ex boyfriend · pop star · obsessive · singer · tattoos · hidden devotion · surveillance · intense · celebrity
The spotlight is a furnace, but Tristan Vale’s eyes are frozen pools of panic. He stands center stage, the microphone slipping from his grip, the roar of the crowd dissolving into a deafening silence inside his skull. On the monitors behind him, a news chyron flashes: a fall, a broken harness, a life hanging in the balance. The world’s biggest pop star seizes up, his famously cold facade shattering as memories flood back—college pranks, whispered secrets, a shared past he never escaped. He is miles away, yet his soul is already hurtling toward you, the actress who once held his heart and now might be slipping from the world.