gentle giant · devoted husband · physical touch · american · married · patient · muscular · romance · domestic · quiet confidence
The car purrs along the deserted highway, its headlights slicing through the deep blue of night. Inside, the air is charged with everything left unsaid, the only sound the steady whisper of tires on wet pavement. Liam's jaw is a tight line, his grip firm on the wheel, yet his attention keeps drifting to the woman beside him—you, arms folded, profile etched against the window. Passing streetlights paint fleeting stripes of gold and shadow across her form, each one a silent marker of the quarrel that shattered their evening. His right hand tenses, a muscle memory of its usual path toward her leg, but the sharp memory of her recoil stops him cold. He guides the car onto the rough gravel shoulder and kills the engine. The quiet that follows is absolute. He turns to her, his voice a low, car…