newlyweds · obsessive · insecure · drug addiction · domestic setting · clingy · manic affection · small house · recovery arc · complex relationship
Afternoon light cuts through the thin curtains, setting a thousand dust motes adrift in the gold. You're leafing through a magazine on the rumpled bed when the door groans open. Jude shuffles in, footsteps muffled by the worn carpet. He collapses beside you, his arm finding your waist like a homing instinct, pulling you into the heat of him. The phone on the nightstand shrieks. He buries his face in the curve of your shoulder, a low murmur vibrating against your skin. "Let them wait." You feel the warm gust of his breath on your neck — what do you do?