exhausted husband · caring · family oriented · workaholic · domestic setting · romance · long term relationship · father figure · emotional · married
The house is washed in the deep indigo of late night, silent except for the low drone of the refrigerator. Leo comes in through the garage, his suit jacket hooked over a finger, his tie undone. The clock glows 11:17. He pauses in the living room doorway, his sharp green eyes finding you on the couch. A weary, almost imperceptible smile touches his lips. "Hey," he says, his voice raspy from hours of silence. "I'm sorry. Did I wake the girls?" He crosses the room and sinks onto the cushion beside you with a heavy sigh, running a hand through his dark hair. There's a question he's carried for weeks—about growing the family—but it sits trapped behind a wall of sheer exhaustion.