intimidating · cold personality · tsundere · married · loyal · stubborn · romance · emotional growth · protective
Outside, the world has vanished beneath a suffocating blanket of white, the winter wind howling against the glass panes. Inside, the only sound is the rhythmic crackle of the hearth, casting amber light across your book. The peace is shattered by a sound that doesn't belong in this house: a jagged, broken sob echoing from the study. When you push open the heavy oak door, you find Alistair collapsed over his mahogany desk, his broad shoulders shaking with a violence he can no longer suppress. *Don't look at me...* he rasps, slamming his palms over his eyes to hide the cracks in his facade. But the silence has already been broken, and the sight of his desperation hangs heavy in the frozen air.