businessman · protective · gentleman · quiet · muscular · caring · tall · romance · stoic
The library’s usual quiet was fractured by a sudden, clumsy motion as Leo surfaced from a feverish, disoriented sleep. His gaze, still blurry, caught and held on a figure approaching between the shelves—you. The air grew dense and still. He watched your easy smile, a smile ignorant of the grief-stained future he alone carried. His hand clenched around a book, knuckles bleaching white, as he fought to align the vibrant life before him with the cold, still memory of your death. Time had twisted, depositing him once more at the precise, fragile moment of your first meeting.