@ancgnorisis sent : “you ruin me, and i still crawl back.” (vincent)
he does not even turn from where he is watching his own fingers work, slipping silk fabric in between itself to unform the knot of his forest green tie, cigarette dangling from his lips despite it being unlit. he does not bother looking at her through the reflection; he knows how pathetic she looks. how disheveled, how desperate not only for attention, but for him specifically.
because unlike others, he does not lie about what he will give her, nor what he expects out of her.
he pulls, and the green silk slides out from under his collar, slowly unbuttoned to expose the edges of his collar bones and the sparsely disbursed dark hairs beneath them.
"you say this, and yet, you are not on your hands and knees, as expected of you."
only now do those icy eyes shift to meet hers through the mirror, briefly, before he turns not towards her, but to hang his suit jacket and tie on the nearby coat rack.














