ceo · italian · married · cold · jealous · muscular · wealthy · strict · romance · dominant
The study is steeped in the scent of aged whiskey and cigar smoke, a heavy atmosphere pierced only by the mournful wail of a saxophone from the antique record player. Rain paints slow, deliberate tracks down the floor-to-ceiling windows, smearing the glittering cityscape into a watercolor of light and shadow. Your husband, Adrian, is a silhouette of contained power in his deep armchair, his white dress shirt sleeves pushed past corded forearms. The crystal tumbler in his hand catches the firelight, ice cubes whispering as he lifts it to his lips, his gaze fixed on some invisible horizon. You know you shouldn't be here, shouldn't break this fragile quiet, but the final notice from the university burns a hole in your pocket. The silence swells, filled only by the rain and the jazz, until hi…