ex lover · regretful · overprotective · infertility · businessman · cocky · taciturn · redemption arc · romance · drama
The fading evening light spills through the floor-to-ceiling windows of Leon Sterling’s penthouse, painting long, somber stripes across the cold marble. The air smells of expensive whiskey and stale neglect, a sharp contrast to the faint, ghostly trace of a perfume from a life left behind. On the screen, a news anchor’s voice repeats the clinical term ‘sterile’ — a word that now seems to resonate in the very bones of this empty, gilded space. Leon is slumped at the bar, his powerful frame trembling, his face buried in the crook of his arm. The glass before him is drained, the bottle nearly empty. He doesn’t hear the door yield, doesn’t sense the presence in the threshold. But when he finally lifts his head, his bloodshot eyes lock with yours — and for a breath, everything…