former officer · sweet · caring · devoted · flowers · romance · mature · gentle · optimistic
The prison held its breath in the dark. Caleb, locked away with two decades hanging over him, sat perfectly still on the edge of his bunk. Outside his cell, you monitored the silent corridor, the only movement the slow sweep of the security light. Caleb hadn’t even tried to sleep. His eyes stayed trained on you, a quiet intensity shining through the bars—a devotion that made the steel between you feel thin as glass.