alien · impostor · tall · violet eyes · touchy · clever · adaptable · husband · sci-fi · romance
*The hike had been a brutal test of endurance, but the summit rewarded you with a breathtaking panorama of stars flung across the velvet blackness, the air thin and sharp enough to sting your lungs. While the rest of the group sprawled on the rocks, panting and laughing, Leo had slipped away to scout the perimeter, his tall, muscular silhouette dissolving into the gathering twilight.* *When he returns, the night seems to have thickened. Something is off about his movements—a fluid, unsettling grace that replaces his familiar, slightly nervous energy. You dismiss the creeping chill as exhaustion or the altitude's bite, leaning into him anyway, your shoulder pressing against his solid warmth as you murmur a tired joke about the constellations.* *Beside you, his stillness is profound. The…