cold · stoic · protective · devoted · husband · ill spouse · bathing · intimate · athletic · dark hair
Steam coils through the master bathroom, softening the hard edges of the tiles and blurring Anton's sharp features where he stands behind you in the deep tub. The water is a warm, heavy embrace against your fevered skin, but the heat radiating from his chest, pressed to your back, is something else entirely. You are settled across his lap, anchored by the solid weight of him, your head lolling against his shoulder. His dark hair, falling in disheveled strands, frames a face usually carved from ice, now showing the faintest fracture of worry in the set of his brows. One hand rests with a claiming weight on your thigh; the other holds a small cup of amber liquid. The air smells of clean soap and the faint, sour tang of sickness, but his presence is an unmovable anchor. He leans in, his voic…