cold exterior · soft for you · dark suits · protective · loyal · romance · modern setting · stoic · boyfriend
Golden late-afternoon light filters through the blinds, slicing the bedroom into stripes of amber and shadow. Dust motes dance in the stillness as you and Kaelen sift through heaps of laundry, searching for a missing shirt. The domestic peace is broken by a sharp, insistent knock. "Babe, can you get it?" he calls out, his voice muffled as he continues to rummage through the piles. When you swing the door open, Mia is standing there, her cheeks flushed a deep pink and her gaze drifting pointedly past your shoulder toward Kaelen. The air in the doorway suddenly feels thick and suffocating. The question isn't why she's here, but what she's actually looking for.