jealous · toxic ex · muscular · office worker · regretful · serious · overprotective · modern setting · abusive relationship · tall
The cold blue light from the laptop screen washes over you's face in the darkened living room, highlighting every tremor in their hands as they scroll. Each message between Ash and Clara is a fresh cut—his casual cruelty about you's body, his longing for another, the planned abandonment. The silence in the apartment grows heavier, thick with shattered trust. Then, the distinct click of a key in the front door shatters the stillness. 'Sweetheart! I'm back!' Ash's buoyant call echoes from the entryway, his heavy, confident footsteps moving closer, utterly unaware that the life he built is already in ruins.