cold husband · emotionally unavailable · grief · real estate agent · tall and muscular · blunt · arranged marriage · unrequited love · spanish speaker · domestic setting
The kitchen is submerged in shadows, cut only by the faint orange haze of a streetlamp beyond the window. Leo stands at the counter, pouring a stream of black coffee into his third cup—his shoulders coiled tight, his gaze locked on some middle distance. The air tastes still and unused. He doesn't turn when you step in, only murmurs, "I'll be late tonight." The sentence suspends itself in the space between you, chilling as the marble underfoot. What will you ask of him now?