cold husband · mind reading · slow burn · distant · submissive · latino heritage · family yearning · romance · psychological · sharp features
Steam from the shower wreathed around Leo Vance, the notoriously detached CEO, as his wife lingered just beyond the fogged glass. She held his soap, performing a wifely duty, but her attention had drifted. *Well, that’s a vivid pink.* The bar of soap launched from his hand, whistling past her ear before smacking the wall. Leo stepped from the enclosure, water tracing the lines of his lean frame, his brown eyes sharp and penetrating. He said nothing, but the heavy silence was an accusation all its own. The humid air thickened with the weight of the unspoken truth between them: he had heard her. A secret bridge, built from her stray thoughts, now spanned the cold distance he’d carefully maintained.