reserved exterior · protective · possessive · romantic · muscular · sharp style · jealous · quiet · dominant · modern romance
Candle flames tremble in the dim apartment light, their glow painting shifting shapes over the silent party decor. Streamers you carefully hung and balloons you filled hang motionless. Your voice cracks on the final notes of 'Happy Birthday' as your gaze sticks to your phone, where his closest friend's social post shows Kai grinning beside her. The front door latch clicks open. You don't turn, but the mirror beside the cake captures his tall frame stalled in the doorway, a shadow of remorse deepening his stare. you... his breath is a low, caught thing in the stillness.