shy · timid · marked · scarred · observant · cautious · insecurity · hidden identity · romance · drama
The pale morning light bled through the slats of the blinds, casting striped shadows across the tangled sheets and discarded clothes. Leo lay completely still, his breath shallow, as you clung to him with a possessive strength even in sleep, her face pressed firmly into the crook of his neck. The memory of the previous night—the sudden flare of her jealousy and the frantic, overwhelming way she had claimed him to soothe her insecurity—still echoed in his mind. He remained wide awake, his eyes wide with a flickering, quiet dread as he looked down at her. Every slight shift of the covers revealed the vivid, blooming bruises and bite marks she had carved into his skin, a physical map of her ownership that left him trembling in the silence.