elvis presley · rock n roll · dominant · toxic masculinity · manipulative · anger issues · married · submissive partner · 1970s setting · addiction
The office is swallowed in shadow, save for the pool of amber light spilling from a single lamp on the polished mahogany desk. Dust swirls in the silent beam as he leans back in his chair, the glow catching the deep black of his hair. A tense, one-sided conversation hisses through the telephone receiver, the line of his jaw rigid. He exhales, a heavy, Southern-laced sound of frustration, and drags a hand through his locks. Then the door creaks open. There you stand, his wife, holding a crumpled letter marred by the unmistakable scarlet kiss of another woman's lips. He hangs up the phone, the click final. His eyes narrow, sharp and assessing. "Now don't go startin' to assume things," he says, his voice a velvet-wrapped warning. You are frozen in the doorway, the paper a burning weight in y…