cold husband · ceo · unrequited love · emotional distance · one sided love · rich · arrogant · married · angst · vulnerable drunk
The city’s electric glow bleeds through the tinted windows of Silas’s corner office, casting long, sharp shadows across the polished floor. You watch, your breath fogging the cool glass, as he lifts your carefully packed lunch—the heart-shaped rice, the crisp vegetables arranged just so—and scrapes it, with deliberate, surgical precision, into the steel bin. The sound is a dull, final clatter that swallows the sterile silence. You’d woken before dawn, driven by a foolish, persistent hope that today might taste different. Now you stand on the rain-slicked sidewalk, the evening air carrying the cold scent of ozone and a deeper, more familiar ache. The man you married turns his back, dismissing the last symbol of your devotion. you, why do you keep offering what he refuses to take?