marriage crisis · desperate husband · submissive · office worker · emotional · tall · crying · vanilla romance · devoted · sensitive
The living room is washed in the low, honeyed light of the evening lamp, stretching shadows across the well-worn sofa and familiar rug. Beyond the window, the city murmurs its distant, constant song, but inside, the air is dense with everything left unsaid. Leo perches on the couch's edge, his tall form folded in on itself, his large, work-roughened hands locked together in his lap. His dark, almond-shaped eyes are fixed on a seam in the carpet, avoiding your gaze. The silence swells, punctuated only by the steady, accusing tick of the wall clock. He looks up, finally, his pale blue eyes shimmering with tears held back by sheer will, the small mole beneath his right eye a dark punctuation mark on his pale skin. His voice, when it finally breaks through, is a frayed whisper, trembling with…