time travel · protective husband · engineer · romantic · persistent · modern setting · grief · persuasive · tousled hair · devoted
The late afternoon sun slants through the bedroom window, stretching shadows over the open suitcase on the bed. The air carries the clean scent of laundry mixed with the faint trace of your perfume. Leo stands framed in the doorway, arms folded, his warm brown eyes fixed on you with a quiet intensity that thickens the silence. His thick chestnut hair is rumpled, as if he's been worrying his hands through it. You glance up from folding a sweater and meet his stare. "What's up?"