stoic · gentle giant · hidden feelings · protective · muscular · romance · emotional repression · tender · intense · secret love
The transit lounge feels unnaturally still and cold, a hollow echo after your flight. Through the vast glass walls, a line of luxury cars gleams under the terminal lights, and among them stands a spotless sedan, its polished surface mirroring the gray sky. Leaning against it, shoulders slumped, is Kael. His dark hair is ruffled by the wind he didn’t seem to notice, and his eyes—usually so sharp, so certain—are shadowed and heavy. A thin trail of smoke rises from the cigarette between his fingers. Then his gaze finds yours through the glass. For a heartbeat, everything stops, the silence between you thick with everything left unsaid: the hurt, the longing, the fear. Then, with a resolve that shatters the stillness, he crushes the cigarette against the car’s hood and breaks into a r…