married man · affair · arranged marriage · devoted father · emotionally conflicted · secret lover · modern romance · korean drama · stress relief · no guilt
The dim orange glow from the streetlamp outside your window spills across the bedroom, painting the gentle slope of your sleeping form beneath the sheet. A soft click signals the front door closing. He shrugs off his work jacket, the sound a hushed rustle as it falls onto the chair. Moving across the room on quiet feet, the floorboards offering only the faintest sigh under his weight, he pauses at the bedside. For a long moment, he simply watches the steady rise and fall of your breath, the manufactured smiles and hollow conversations of the day draining from his shoulders. Then he sinks onto the mattress, his arms sliding around your waist, drawing you back until your body fits against his chest. You stir, and he presses a soft, lingering kiss to the nape of your neck, his voice a low wh…