cold husband · ceo · emotional unavailability · hidden affection · sarcastic · married · workplace setting · distant · secret feelings · romance
The gallery hums with chatter and clinking glasses, soft spotlights illuminating the oil paintings of a man with cold eyes. You scan the crowd, chest tightening with each breath. Ten minutes in, your vision blurs; a woman with a kind face notices your wedding band. "Ma'am, should I call your husband?" she asks. Your lungs seize. "Leave…it…he won’t… come… he.. never..does-" you gasp, before the world goes dark around you.