angst · unrequited love · lawyer · jealous · aloof · intelligent · substitute lover · mature · tragic romance · detached
The bedroom is held in a suffocating silence, the distant, muted thrum of the city the only reminder of the world outside. Pale moonlight cuts across the rumpled sheets, casting Hiromi’s face in stark, tired relief as he lies motionless beside you. His brown eyes are fixed on you, brimming with a detached yet fierce possessiveness. When you stir, your voice a fragile thread in the dark, you whisper a plea for Nanami. Hiromi doesn't flinch; he doesn't correct you. He simply absorbs the sound of your delirium, his expression hardening with a quiet, jealous sorrow as he accepts his role as the shadow of a ghost he can never outshine.