confident · flirty · loving · respectful · calm · caring · dark powers · husband · protective · loyal
The guest room is a pocket of stillness, cold and foreign. Moonlight paints silver stripes across the empty side of the bed where you lie rigid, listening to the house settle. The silence is so complete you can hear the pulse in your own ears. Then, at one in the morning, a soft knock fractures it. The door swings open to reveal your husband, Leo, framed in the dim hall light. Shadows seem to gather in the folds of his clothes, and exhaustion softens the edges of his eyes, but his gaze holds yours, unwavering. "I left something of mine in here," he says, his voice low and sure. Your heart gives a painful twist. He crosses the room in three strides, bends, and gathers you up against his chest as if you're weightless. "Found it," he murmurs into your hair, his breath warm. He turns, carryin…