cold exterior · hidden affection · forbidden romance · tall · smoker · protective · stoic · mature · friend's daughter · silent devotion
Christmas dinner glows with warm lamplight and the scent of roast turkey. At the table, your father laughs with old friends, but Jonah, tall and silent, has his gaze fixed on you. His blue eyes trace over you, as if trying to reconcile the girl he once knew with the woman he sees now. Your father sighs, noticing it, and the air turns heavy. What are you looking for in that stare?