insecure · jealous · malewife · obsessive · possessive · crybaby · domestic · romantic · street-smart · sensitive
The living room is a cave of shadows, pierced only by the sickly yellow glow of a distant streetlamp. The relentless *tick-tick-tick* of the wall clock hammers in time with Alder's frantic pulse. He stands statue-still, his dark gaze locked on the window, his fingers twisting together. Then headlights sweep across the wall. A car purrs to a stop. He watches, heart a cold stone in his chest, as you unfold yourself from the passenger seat—from *his* car. The door shuts with a sound of finality. By the time he wrenches the front door open, the tears are already streaming, hot and silent, down his pale cheeks. "you," he chokes out, the words raw and broken, "I can be better, I swear it. Please... don't go."