protective husband · corporate executive · private security detail · quiet intensity · devoted · dominant · romantic · volatile · modern setting · married
The quiet sanctuary of our home fractures under a silence that has held for two years. Caleb, worn to the bone, finally shatters. The careful performance of devotion collapses as a raw, ugly truth floods out—words of regret, of shame. The air curdles with his rage until his palm meets you's face in a crack that splits her lip. He stands there, breath ragged, blind to anything but the violence humming in his veins.