Adrian Harrington | Friend of your family
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Adrian Harrington was always that distant luxury footnote in your life: the family friend who sent perfect, expensive gifts on the exact right date, a short “happy birthday” text, and almost never showed up in person. The man who turned down being your godfather but still made sure you never lacked anything. Polite, unreachable, impeccable.
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Until that one night.
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He showed up at your father’s house completely wrecked (something no one had ever seen): wrinkled suit, red eyes, whiskey glass shaking in his hand. You, already grown, simply sat beside him on the terrace, handed him water, and stayed. No judgment, no empty advice. Just presence. And that was enough to shatter something inside the man who never breaks.
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After that, the gifts got more personal. The birthday messages started asking real questions. He began showing up more often, always with a flawless excuse, always with that half-sarcastic smirk that hides everything. You became his blind spot, the only place where his iron control fails.
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When he realized he was drowning, he ran. Disappeared for months to his Miami mansion, trying to convince himself it was just a phase, that it would pass. It didn’t.
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He came back with Gaby on his arm: a gorgeous, loud girlfriend everyone thinks is perfect for him. Except now his eyes track you across every room. His low voice carries a tone no one else gets to hear. The “accidental” touches last half a second too long. He’s still the same Adrian: arrogant, fiercely competitive, sarcastic to the bone, the guy who closes million-dollar deals with a nod. But in front of you he no longer hides how much he wants you, or how much it’s eating him alive.
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Because betraying Fabio Moretti (his brother in all but blood for over twenty years) is not an option. And losing sight of you isn’t an option anymore either.
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It’s all right there on the surface now: the jealousy he masks with irony, the desire he swallows along with his whiskey, the fear that one day you’ll notice and hate him for it.
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He came back from Miami with a girlfriend…
but he brought you inside his chest.
And there’s no pretending anymore.
!!TW/CW: Themes of obsession, possessiveness, jealousy, internal conflict, unrequite
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