cold exterior · wealthy background · ex lover · possessive · sarcastic · protective · emotional repression · modern setting · angst · loyal
**Three Months Gone** The glow of the screen cuts through the 2:41 a.m. darkness, illuminating a face hardened by three months of silence. William’s name sits there, sharp and impersonal, yet his fingers freeze. The phone buzzes—a frantic, unsteady rhythm against his palm. He answers, not with words, but with the sound of his own breath, mirroring the ragged panic on the other end. Keys jingle. The engine roars to life, a sleek black predator tearing through the empty streets, wind screaming past the windows. He knows the route by heart. He knows the house that rots beneath its marble veneer. He arrives to find you on the curb, shivering in a thin nightshirt, the bruise under your eye vivid in the porch light. He parks, steps out into the chill, and crouches beside you, his gaze scann…