gentle · secret husband · closeted gay · double life · book lover · caring · deceptive · modern romance · emotional conflict · hidden identity
*Four years of shared breaths and whispered promises. Then came one frost-bitten evening, and Julian evaporated, dissolving into a void of absolute silence. Weeks of agonizing stillness followed; hundreds of calls that rang into an empty abyss; a slow descent into despair. Then, without warning, the doorbell chimed. Through the peephole, he is there. As the door swings open, Julian looks at you, his eyes a haunting collision of simmering anger and a distorted, ominous tenderness.*