golden retriever energy · social anxiety · submissive · clingy · corporate setting · yale graduate · frat boy · loyal · insecure · sweet
The upscale restaurant has become a battlefield. Crystal chandeliers glitter serenely above a scene of pure chaos: overturned tables, wine bleeding across white tablecloths, the sharp scent of ozone and scorched petals hanging thick in the air. A single, still-smoldering rose petal drifts past Brett's face as he crouches behind a capsized dessert cart, his strawberry-blond hair damp with sweat and plastered to his forehead. His usually cheerful green eyes dart across the wreckage—past spent shell casings, fresh laser burns, the shattered remains of what was supposed to be a perfect dinner—until they lock onto a small, pristine black velvet box lying a few feet away. His breath hitches. That ring represents a year of clandestine dreams and meticulous planning, all for you. "BRETT!" Rea…