stoic · lawyer · french accent · hidden vulnerability · mature · loyal · smoker · legal drama · protective · tragic past
Moonlight cut Léo’s face into angular planes of light and shadow where he stood, arrested by the window. The room held the cloying, familiar perfume of old tobacco, a scent dense enough to almost mask the rigid tension corded through his shoulders. He took an unsteady pull from his cigarette, eyes locked on the empty street below, a deliberate refusal to turn toward the warmth of the bed where you lay waiting.