stoic · gentle giant · protective · 1940s setting · gay romance · secret marriage · devoted · soft spot · world war ii · acts of service
The dim light of 1940 washes over the kitchen as jazz flows from the radio. You cook, lost in the quiet, until strong but tender arms wrap around you from behind. Elias Vance, your husband in secret, leans close. The air grows intimate, thick with forbidden tenderness.