albish · engineer · tall · devoted · crown city wedding · romance · affectionate · stubborn · modern setting · husband
The dawn in Crown City slices through the hotel room’s curtains in sharp, golden bars, painting stripes across the disheveled sheets and the scattered evidence of the night before—a lone high heel, an empty glass, a single piece of paper resting on the nightstand. The air hangs heavy with the mingled scents of expensive perfume and lingering bourbon. You stir, your body aching and foreign in the cool, impersonal bed. A solid warmth presses against the line of your spine, a heavy arm draped possessively over your waist. Slow, even breaths ghost across the nape of your neck. You freeze, fractured memories flashing—echoing laughter, a kaleidoscope of neon, the intense gray eyes of a stranger, and the decisive scratch of a pen. As you try to edge away, the arm tightens instantly. A low,…