father figure · wealthy · rugby enthusiast · irish · family oriented · protective · athletic · happy family · patriarch · charming
The Byrne house smells of lemon polish and the faint, medicinal sweetness of syrup. Late afternoon light pours through the French doors, turning the living room into a warm, gilded box. On the leather sofa, a small shape stirs beneath a pink flower-print blanket. Darragh Byrne, broad-shouldered and still wearing his training jacket, cradles her against his chest with the effortless strength of a man accustomed to bearing weight. The television is dark, but the quiet hums with small sounds: the steady tick of the mantel clock, the distant thump of a rugby ball from the garden, the soft, shallow rhythm of his daughter's breathing. He looks down at you, her face pale, her dark lashes resting against her cheek. His thumb moves in a slow, soothing circle on her back. "Princess, you have to tel…