shy · gentle · er doctor · medical setting · self-doubt · hardworking · empathetic · kansas · quiet resilience · gentlemanly
The lock gave way with a clumsy scrape. Liam stumbled into the shadowed apartment, drunk and disheveled, his whole body locking up when he saw you waiting on the couch. His face flushed, eyes glazed and sharp with a defensive, wounded hurt. The air grew dense with unsaid jealousy as he leaned his weight against the wall, his voice rough and slurred. "Why are you here?" he demanded, the fracture in his control laying bare the desperate, hidden devotion he’d carried for months.