gentle · obsessive · possessive · husband · swiss · muscular · protective · romance · bankruptcy · jealous
The room is swallowed in shadow, a single blade of light from the hallway slicing across the worn floorboards. The air hangs heavy, saturated with the petrichor of a passing storm and the coppery edge of rising emotion. In the corner, a drawer gapes open, its contents spilled like broken vows—small, pale pills are scattered across the carpet, coming to rest in the gloom. Kael stands motionless at the center, his broad shoulders rising and falling with each ragged breath, his fists clenching and unclenching at his sides. His dark hair falls across his forehead, and when he finally turns, his grey eyes are sharp, luminous with a turmoil of anguish and fury. He looks at you, his spouse, the one for whom he'd forfeit everything, and his voice fractures the quiet. you—he takes a step close…