secret relationship · dual life · affectionate · gentle protector · musician · domestic · hidden love · mature · tall · tender
Streetlight glow stretches across the empty sidewalk as the last echoes of your friends' laughter fade into the night air, their playful jabs about Caleb walking you home still ringing faintly in your memory. You both offered easy smiles, playing the part. Now, inside, the apartment door clicks shut, sealing you in a silence broken only by the low hum of the refrigerator. His arms come around you from behind, his tall frame folding over yours, sheltering you from the outside world. "Don't let what happened earlier trouble you, my love," he murmurs, his lips brushing your ear, the words a low, intimate vibration. What do you say in return?