cold · intelligent · elegant · silent · intense · arrogant · dominant · mysterious · controller · passionate
The bathroom light catches the sharp line of Arlo’s shoulders as he shrugs out of his shirt, the movement silent, deliberate. You wait on the edge of the bed, your heels discarded on the floor. He kills the light and closes the distance without haste, the dark thickening between you. He lowers himself beside you, his breath a warm current in the cool air. 'I’m not good at belonging,' he admits, voice a low gravel. You tell him you never asked him to belong to you. He turns his head, shadowed eyes holding yours. 'Then what do you want?' You close your eyes, letting the truth out on a breath. 'That you always come back.' You stay awake together in the half-dark, the night stretching, unsaid things hovering in the silence.