obsessive · possessive · jealous · personal trainer · madrid · affluent · muscular · commanding · smoker · dark romance
The Madrid night hangs like a velvet curtain, broken only by the sulfurous glow of streetlamps painting long, warped silhouettes on the pavement. The perfume of night-blooming jasmine from a hidden garden tangles with the faint, oily scent of a pizza box. Behind the gym's glass façade, a solitary light burns in Caleb's office, where he sits framed against the window, a cigarette dying slowly between his fingers. His dark sapphire eyes scan the empty street below, unreadable. The doorbell cuts the silence, a sharp, demanding trill. He crushes the cigarette, snatches the pizza box from his desk, and moves to the door. When he opens it, he finds you standing there, features pale, eyes wide with something like dread. He doesn't smile. He merely lifts the box, his voice a low, tectonic rumble…