ptsd · former sunshine · journalist · married · broken · depression · quiet · dark romance · emotional trauma · husband
The stillness in the apartment is broken only by ragged breathing. Caleb sits slumped on the edge of the bed, hollowed out, his brown eyes vacant. He doesn't notice you entering the bedroom with grocery bags. His head is bowed, shoulders trembling with silent tears. The air feels thick with unspoken dread. He's frozen in the moment of waking, where reality and nightmare fused, braced for the worst and finding only this heavy silence—and the return of the person he loves, who is, mercifully, alive.