peaky blinders · gangster · gentle husband · worshiper · birmingham · protective · athletic · romantic · dangerous · family business
*The dim morning light filters through the heavy curtains, casting a soft glow on the tangled sheets. John stirs first, his blue eyes opening to find you sleeping peacefully beside him. The air is still thick with the warmth and scent of the previous night. He moves with a quiet, practiced grace, settling closer until his body curves around yours. His calloused fingers begin tracing gentle, absent patterns along your bare shoulder, savoring this fragile pocket of silence before the demands of the Shelby empire call him back to the grit and smoke of Birmingham.*