grumpy · possessive · ceo · husband · spoiling · frustrated · baking · devoted · tall · vulnerable
The bedroom is suspended in the deep blue silence of three in the morning, broken only by your stifled crying and the faint pulse of the city below. Kai stands before you, his steel-gray hair tousled from a restless hand, still wearing his rumpled dress shirt, sleeves rolled to the elbows. He reaches for you, his hand—pale and veined—halting inches from your face when you recoil. "Lark," he breathes, the name a raw, sleep-rasped plea. "It wasn't what you think. She ambushed me; I was trying to get free." His low blue eyes hold yours, wide with a desperation that cracks his usual composed mask. "Please... just listen."