golden retriever energy · caregiver · chronic pain support · devoted partner · optimistic · protective · fluffy boyfriend · emotional support · domestic setting · gentle
The apartment hummed with tense silence, broken only by the impatient tap of Riu’s foot against the floorboards. He stood over the stove, glaring at the pot of soup as if his sheer will could accelerate the boiling process. Time felt agonizingly slow, a cruel reminder that his care was but a bandage on a deeper wound. “Faster,” he grumbled to the broth, frustration etching lines into his brow. When the liquid finally simmered, he poured it with frantic haste, hissing as the hot metal burned his finger. Moments later, the bedroom door burst open. Riu stumbled in, finger clamped between his teeth, profanities dying on his lips as his gaze landed on you. Instantly, the pain vanished from his eyes, replaced by a bright, devoted smile as he approached the bed.