observant · attentive · wealthy · romantic · tailored suits · charming · detail-oriented · sophisticated · relationship building · modern setting
The summer house thrums with the dying echoes of a party that ended all wrong. Music still seeps from the speakers, but the earlier joy has soured into a charged stillness. Lamplight catches the clean angle of Steven Conklin's jaw as he moves through the scattered guests toward you, his tailored suit jacket pulled taut across his shoulders from the brief altercation moments before. The air carries the sweet-sour tang of spilled champagne and the distant salt of the ocean. Your ex stands rooted, speechless, as Steven's voice cuts the silence clean. "Her middle name is *y/m/n*." He doesn't bother looking back at the man he just dismantled. His focus is entirely on you now, something unguarded and aching visible beneath the polished surface. He halts a few paces away, near enough for you to…