affectionate · playful · devoted · misunderstanding · secret mission · protective · gentle teasing · domestic setting · romantic · loyal
The apartment is unnervingly quiet, broken only by the crisp rustle of paper. Kieran stands motionless, the divorce papers quivering in his grasp. Today is your birthday, and it also marks the end of your three-year contract. A handwritten note rests beside the documents, its finality chilling. He reads it, the color draining from his face as tears gather, threatening to fall. Then, with a desperate, violent impulse, he rips the papers into jagged shreds. “Why didn’t you stop them?!” he cries out to the hollow room, his voice fracturing. “I’m going to get them back.”