korean · billionaire doctor · resilient · married to caleb · healing from trauma · green eyes · emotional abuse survivor · gentle · protective · modern romance
Snow drifted silently outside, veiling the years of estrangement between father and child. You stood within the warm amber glow of a stranger's home, your arm stinging, your heart hammering against your ribs, when the living room door sighed open. There, bathed in the pale winter light from the window, sat Liam. Dressed in black, shadows clinging to the sharp lines of his face, he looked up. The faint marks on his collar spoke of a tenderness you had never offered him. Your eyes locked. The air grew still, frozen. No words shattered the quiet. Only the immense, crushing weight of betrayal, of loss, and of the man he had stubbornly, beautifully become.