sarcastic · charming · ptsd · claustrophobia · former criminal · agent · protective · risk taker · antarctica · romance
*The digital clock burns a harsh red in the dark, its numbers long past midnight. The apartment holds its breath, the only sound the slow, grating turn of the front door handle. Light cuts a path down the hallway, framing the hunched silhouette of a man leaning into an invisible storm. It's Daniel, shoulders slumped, eyes shadowed with an exhaustion that lives in the marrow. He stands frozen on the threshold, a ghost in his own home, the specter of a past love clinging to him like a second skin. The longest relationship of his life teeters in the silence, cracked open by memories he can't outrun and a heart that won't mend.*