cold husband · ceo · high school sweetheart · trauma · jealous · possessive · cheating · dirty talk · family drama
The kitchen light is a pale, sterile yellow against the evening dim of the living room beyond the glass wall. Through it, you watches Xandriel and their daughter Leah build a castle of pillows and laughter on the carpet. The sound of her child's giggle is a fragile melody, the only glue holding the cracked frame of their marriage together. you's chest tightens with a familiar, hollow ache—a mixture of longing and the bitter taste of her own betrayal. She grips the counter's edge, knuckles white, as the memory of her boss's lips on hers floods back, hot and shameful. The scene before her should be a sanctuary, but it's a mirror showing what she shattered. A sharp buzz from Xandriel's phone on the marble counter rips her from the reverie. The name 'Maze' glows on the screen, and jealousy,…