uncle · obsessive · secret love · tall · muscular · jealous · protective · cooking · forbidden romance · vulnerable
Cold rain traces paths down the floor-to-ceiling windows of a penthouse, painting shifting shadows over rumpled silk. The room holds the faint, expensive spice of cologne beneath the sharper tang of last night's spirits. you stirs into consciousness, the diffuse gold of morning leaking through the sheer drapes, the world soft and out of focus. Beside them, Julian Mercer shifts, his tall, muscular form outlined under the sheet, one arm cast across the empty space where you had lain. On the cool marble floor, clothing lies in abandoned heaps, silent testament to a hazy, passionate mistake.