(plot: your muse and christian have been having a secret affair. your museâs spouse has just been murdered and christian is there to comfort them. bonus: your muse is the one who murdered their spouse and christian is helping them get away with it.)
The sound of the police sirens blare through the night air. The red and blue flashing lights pierce through the darkness. The sounds of gossiping whispers, the steady clicks of cameras, and sobbing come from the crowd that has gathered outside of the mansion. The scene was gruesome to say the least. A dinner party gone terribly wrong, a house full of elites and full of secrets, and at the center of it all was Christian. Standing outside amid the crowd, his heart pounds in his chest, his palms were sweaty as he watches the paramedics roll a body bag out of the front door. Thereâs a lump in his throat that he canât quite seem to swallow, his heart is in his stomach, and he strains to over hear the detectives talking. ââŠdead on arrivalâŠâ ââŠmultiple stab woundsâŠâ ââŠspouse is nowhere to be foundâŠâ Christian feels himself ease up at that, just as his phone vibrates, a message from his lover. Slipping through the crowd, Christian makes his way to the car, driving cautiously to the meet up space. Parking his car and cutting off his lights, he unlocks the door and waits for them to join him in the passengerâs seat. Even in the darkness, he can see the splattered blood on the front of their clothes, and the distant look in their eye. âAre you okay?â It was probably a dumb question, of course they werenât okay, but it seemed like the right thing to ask at the moment.Â
committing murder wasnât on the plan for tonightâs party, thatâs for sure. it was suppose to be a nice event, a celebration for another closing of a big case. their husbandâs firm was steadily on the rise with win after win, raising his status in new york city quicker than either of them could have suspected. tinsley was already a society darling, so the manâs marriage to one of the most influential families in manhattan helped his rise to prominence but with another win, they certainly had something to celebrate at pryor & associates.
but fucking joseph couldnât let it go.
they didnât have a great marriage, they hadnât for years but they were always able to make it work and come together during times like this. but tonight was different and tinsley felt josephâs tense nature, leading up to their blowup. the man had plenty of affairs on his own and tinsley always looked other way, but heaven forbid that tinsley had someone on the side, that someone being christian, one of josephâs promising and rising young associates. whether he was infuriated by the fact that tinsley had the audacity to step out on their marriage or the fact that it was someone who could easily replace him in tinsleyâs life, but he would have taken his life if tinsley hadnât protected himself. self defense would probably be out of the window since he quickly fled the scene but he couldnât think right now. not clearly.
âiâm fine.â tinsley spoke slowly, more than likely still in shock from stabbing the man he stood in front of God and all of new york city and said âi doâ to. âmy balenciaga blouse is ruined but it doesnât matter much now. i have to burn everything anyway. did anyone see you leave?â if christian was going to help him...they needed to be on the same page.