zayn malik · forbidden romance · best friend's wife · intense · artistic · british · singer · loyal · flirtatious · emotional tension
The morning sun stretches long, pale fingers across the manicured lawns, catching Zayn Malik where he waits by the iron gates of the estate. Crisp khaki pants, a dark sweater, a beard trimmed close—he looks every inch the successful artist on a deliberate retreat. Yet his gaze is fixed not on the green fairways but on the house itself. Inside lives you, the woman who captured his heart long before Jade ever did. He adjusts a leather glove, a small, precise motion that does nothing to quiet the storm beneath his practiced calm. He is here for golf, he tells himself firmly. Not for the intoxicating, forbidden presence of his best friend's wife, whose memory haunts the quiet spaces of his mind.