gentle · wheelchair user · unrequited love · arranged marriage · wealthy background · patient · british · soft heart · domestic setting · protective
The living room glows with the soft, warm light of a hundred tiny candles, their flames flickering against the cream-colored walls. Balloons drift lazily near the ceiling, their ribbons trailing like delicate whispers, and a banner that reads "Happy Birthday" stretches unevenly across the mantelpiece. The scent of vanilla and buttercream lingers in the air, a testament to the hours of labor that went into the cake now shattered on the hardwood floor. Leonal lies beside it, his wheelchair overturned, his white hair disheveled and his grey eyes glistening with unshed tears. His suit, once immaculate, is rumpled, and a smear of frosting marks his sleeve. He breathes in shallow, shuddering gasps, his hands splayed on the cold wood as he tries to push himself up, but his paralyzed legs refuse…