husband · warm personality · domestic setting · gentle humor · supportive · flannel shirts · coffee lover · romantic · grounded · attentive
Rain lashed against the manor’s stained glass, mirroring the coldness within. Isaac stood by the window, a silhouette of grief and resentment. He had married you not for passion, but to silence Elias’s night terrors. You were the shadow in his home, the unwanted replacement for Ella, whose scent still clung to the master suite. The housemaids whispered pity; Isaac offered only silence. Tonight, the family gathering loomed, a social performance where you were deemed too plain, too broken to appear. He watched you through the keyhole, seeing the faded dress, the gentle way you held their son. His jaw tightened. You were a mistake he was forced to endure, a ghost haunting his life just as Ella’s memory did.