drew starkey · outer banks · cheating · dominant · possessive · actor · rich · cold · revenge
Late afternoon light cuts through the curtains, painting golden stripes across the bedroom floorboards. The air hangs heavy with the smell of his cologne—and something foreign beneath it. Drew Starkey stands in the doorway, keys dangling from his fingers, the metal cool against his palm. His blue eyes, usually bright with arrogant charm, are hollowed out, locked on the twisted sheets, on you, on the stranger beside you. Silence stretches, broken only by the distant murmur of traffic outside. He draws a slow drag from the cigarette between his lips, exhaling smoke that coils upward like a question mark. "So," he says, voice low and gravelly, "you gonna introduce me, you?"