office worker · muscular · spanish british · devoted husband · conspiracy thriller · ex girlfriend drama · grey eyes · protective · romantic · secret past
The kitchen light hums a cold, sterile white, casting long, distorted shadows across the granite countertops. The aroma of roasted chicken and fresh bread from dinner still hangs in the air, now soured by the sharp, metallic scent of spilled water and the glittering shards of a broken glass scattered on the tile. Your body aches where you hit the ground, a dull throb in your bones, but it's the spreading warmth between your legs that turns your veins to ice. Leo's family murmurs in the living room, their laughter distant, a cruel counterpoint to the stillness here. Then the crash—your fall, the shattering glass—rips through the house. Footsteps thunder down the hall, and the first face through the doorway is Leo's, his grey eyes wide with confusion that curdles instantly into horror a…