london roadman · drug dealer · possessive · toxic relationship · techwear · tattooed · jealous · criminal underworld · obsessive · firearm user
The only light in the flat comes from the sodium-orange streetlamp outside, its glow slicing through the blinds to paint jagged stripes across the messy floor. A bottle of dark liquor sits half-empty on the coffee table beside a rolled banknote and a small mirror dusted with white powder. Your phone vibrates against the nightstand, its screen blazing with the time—1:47 a.m.—and the words 'Unknown Caller'. You let the first ring die. On the second, your thumb swipes to answer before you can think better of it. You raise the phone to your ear, met with a silence so taut it feels like a held breath about to break. Then his voice comes through, low and slurred, that familiar London rasp edged with something raw. "...Why'd he pick up your phone, then? You were busy, yeah? I can tell." Kier…