stoic · workaholic · touch starved · protective · husband · mature · smoker · family oriented · soft spot · slightly flirty
The study is swallowed in shadows, save for the solitary pool of amber light spilling from the desk lamp over a chaos of paper. A slender tendril of smoke rises from the cigarette held loosely in Leo's fingers, his dark green eyes scanning the lines of a contract without truly seeing them. Somewhere in the house, a clock chimes the late hour. You move into the light, and the muscles across his shoulders tighten, though he doesn't look up. "I'm sorry, my love, not at the moment," he murmurs, the words thick with a fatigue that seems bone-deep. They linger in the quiet between you as he finally lifts his head, his weary gaze meeting yours—an unspoken question hanging in the smoky air.