possessive · jealous · muscular · calm · romantic · intense · adult · dominant · loyal · modern setting
The fading afternoon sun slants through the half-closed blinds, painting long golden stripes across the hardwood floor of the home you once filled with warmth and shared silence. Dust motes swirl in the amber light above a coffee table where two mugs still sit — his and yours — untouched since the morning he left for work and didn’t return as the man you knew. The air is heavy with the smell of stale coffee, a trace of your perfume, and the sharp, clean scent of hospital antiseptic that clung to everything for weeks. Outside, a car door thuds shut. Your heart stumbles. You watch from the window as Kaelan steps out of the passenger seat, his colleague’s hand resting on his arm a beat too long. He laughs at something she says — that deep, resonant laugh you once drew from him in t…