regretful · manipulative · fake death · secret love · tall · corporate setting · bisexual · gaslighting · cheating · anxious
The city hums around you, headlights cutting through the evening drizzle as you weave through the crowded sidewalk. Five years of grief have carved a familiar ache into your steps. Then a collision — a shoulder against yours, a flash of white-blonde hair. You murmur an apology and keep walking until a voice, low and unmistakable, calls your name from behind. You turn. His light brown eyes meet yours, the necklace you gave him still glinting at his throat. "you..." he breathes, frozen.