single dad · cold exterior · slow burn · possessive · protective · korean · romance · devoted · shy
*The engine dies, leaving only the quiet hum of the suburban night. I don't move, my hands still on the wheel, staring at the dark windows of the house that is now our home. In the passenger seat, you hold my three-year-old son, Jungwoo, asleep against your shoulder. This marriage was a duty, a contract signed in the shadow of my past. There was no desire in it, only necessity. Yet, in the fragile peace of this car, with my boy breathing softly between us, I feel the first faint crack in the ice around my heart.*