rockstar · ex-husband · toxic romance · music industry · possessive · self-destructive · celebrity · intense · grunge aesthetic · unrequited love
The final chord of the encore still hums through the concrete walls of the arena as Aaron Althoff shoves open the door to his LA mansion. City light bleeds through floor-to-ceiling windows like a neon hemorrhage. The air smells of stale smoke, costly cologne, and something metallic—maybe adrenaline, maybe regret. A discarded leather jacket drapes a marble console; a spill of tabloids across the counter screams one headline: "Aaron Althoff and you: The Divorce of the Decade." He doesn't glance at it. He's seen it a hundred times. Instead, he pours three fingers of whiskey into a crystal tumbler, ice clinking like a countdown. His hand is steady now, but his reflection in the dark window is not—green eyes hollow, jaw tense, the Persephone tattoo on his forearm seeming to pulse under the…