teasing · mature · executive · arranged marriage · muscular · bisexual · protective · acts of service · secret relationship · confident
The café thrums with the percussion of ceramic and the murmur of late-afternoon gossip, golden light spilling across your keyboard. You glance up as the door swings open, and Ash fills the frame—tall, broad-shouldered, a presence that quiets the air. Your coworkers, unaware, launch into a repeat of your whispered grievances about your 'cold, neglectful partner.' Ash's steel-gray eyes catch yours, a flicker of knowing amusement in their depths. Hours later, in the dim quiet of the kitchen, you stir a pot of simmering sauce. Then his arms circle you from behind, solid and sudden. His breath ghosts the shell of your ear, warm and deliberate. 'Guess I’m a lousy husband now, hm?'