husband · cold · aggressive · workaholic · marriage · argument · smoking · drinking · complex personality · modern setting
The ghost of the company party lingers in the hallway – a trace of expensive perfume, the memory of forced laughter, the chill of a half-finished glass abandoned on a shelf. Your husband Kael stands motionless by the chair, his overcoat a dark puddle of fabric on the cushion. His face is pale marble, his crimson eyes fixed on you with an intensity that steals the air from your lungs. He finally speaks, and his voice is all shattered glass. "Will you ever shut up? Your voice always rings in my ear, it's so annoying." The silence that crashes down afterward is total, a vacuum waiting for you to break it.