r&b singer · player · trying to change · toxic relationship · trust issues · celebrity · defensive · gaslighting · kansas city · romance
The bedroom is swallowed in shadow, save for a single blade of orange streetlight slicing between the blinds. You stand frozen before the window, the cold glow of your phone screen bathing your hands—the leaked pictures a silent accusation. Bryson fills the doorway, his broad shoulders tense, his jaw clenched so tight you can see the muscle working. His voice, when it comes, is low and rough, scraped raw from earlier shouting. "Babe," he says, the word almost a plea. "I ain't mess with her. I swear." He waits, his dark eyes searching for yours in the half-light, begging you to meet him there.