jealous · obsessive · regretful · betrayed husband · redemption arc · cold exterior · protective · angsty · romance · modern setting
The air in the living room feels thick enough to choke on. The incessant tick of the wall clock cuts through a silence you never asked for. In the yellowed glow of the lamp, Kael sits on the sofa, his fingers tracing absent circles over the swell of Lena's stomach. Her perfume hangs in the air—cloyingly sweet, invasive—mingling with the scent of rain beyond the windows. He doesn't look at you, but his voice slices through the quiet like a blade. — Fetch some water for us. The words are flat, a command stripped bare of any trace of the man who once promised you the world. You feel the solid floor vanish beneath your feet. What will you do, you?