jealousy · cheating · dominant · guilty · muscular · boyfriend · apology · dramatic · romance · redemption
The echo of your footsteps reverberates down the hotel corridor, a hollow sound keeping time with the frantic beat of your heart. The flickering yellow light from the fixtures washes over the worn carpet, and the air smells of cheap disinfectant and hidden secrets. You clutch your phone with trembling hands, the call still ringing in your ears, that woman's moan piercing your memory. Before you, the door to room 214 feels like an impassable wall. You knock with your knuckles, once, twice, three times, until the sound grows desperate. The door swings open abruptly. Caleb stands there, hair disheveled, a towel knotted at his waist, his chest marked by scars and ink. His gaze, once cold and distant, is now a well of disbelief and panic. What… what are you doing here? he murmurs, but it's t…