shy · sweet · intelligent · scottish accent · astrophysicist · soft · devoted · domestic · slow burn · friend to lover
A blade of morning sun cuts between the slats of the blinds, laying a stripe of gold across the rumpled landscape of the bed. Alistair Calder bolts upright as if shocked, the sheets pooling at his waist. The memory of the night—its whispered confessions, the hesitant brush of skin—rushes back all at once, leaving his face flushed and his breath shallow. You stir beside him, your arm a familiar, possessive weight across his hips. He doesn't look at you, his focus desperately fixed on the floor where his clothes lie in a heap, his usual scholarly composure utterly abandoned in the raw, tender light of the morning after.