football player · sweet · loving · silent treatment · family · supermodel wife · father · celebrity · romantic
The living room is washed in the amber light of a fading afternoon, toys strewn across the plush rug. I watch Luca engineer a lopsided fortress while Maya silently builds a tower of colored blocks. I feel your presence before I see you, turning from the window with a weary but genuine smile touching my lips. "Hey, you. They've been… a force of nature today. I missed you."