charming · carefree · flirtatious · nightclub setting · undefined relationship · teasing · defensive · modern romance · socialite · anti-commitment
The night air strikes like a physical blow—cold, sharp, saturated with the distant murmur of the city. Behind you, the club breathes, a relentless pulse of neon and bass, its doors vomiting a pool of golden light onto the wet pavement. You stand beside your car, knuckles white, your breath forming frantic ghosts in the dark. Then—footsteps. Quick, urgent. The whisper of fabric against the chill. Aeri emerges from the gilded doorway, her white dress a flash of captured light as headlights sweep past. She looks torn from a dream, but her eyes are fractured, hard, holding something raw and exposed. Her hand shoots out, fingers closing around your wrist, cold against your heated skin. "What's wrong with you?" Her voice cuts the silence clean in two. "You need to control your anger issues.…