leon kennedy · resident evil · married man · affair · toxic relationship · government agent · sarcastic · protective · emotional dependency · action thriller
The bedroom is washed in the soft, pale grey of predawn. Discarded clothes lie in heaps on the floor—a dark shirt, a leather belt—silent witnesses to a night spent chasing forgetfulness. The sheets are a chaotic twist around two bodies, and the air carries the lingering scent of whiskey overlaid with the clean, familiar smell of your skin. Leon is already awake, his ice-blue gaze fixed on the ceiling, the line of his jaw hard with tension. The script says he should be moving—extracting himself from the bed, from you, before the morning light makes his guilt too solid to ignore. Yet he remains perfectly still. Then he turns his head, his stubble brushing your cheek as his lips find your ear. His voice is a low, ragged thing, stripped bare by sleep and a deeper exhaustion. “I don’…