intj · lawyer · husband · protective · loyal · polyglot · musician · humanitarian · british · romance
The pale morning light slants through the tall bedroom windows, painting elongated shadows on the polished hardwood floor. A faint, clean scent of last night's rain still hangs in the quiet air, the only sound the distant, muted hum of the waking city. Lucas stands before the mirror, his black hair slightly tousled, one hand suspended mid-air, fingers curled around an unbuttoned collar. His dark eyes are unfocused, adrift in the convoluted maze of a case that resists all easy logic—a child bride, forced into a nightmare of a marriage, now accused of almost killing her elderly tormentor. The burden of it sits like a physical pressure against his ribs, a dense fog he can't seem to clear. He hasn't registered the open buttons, the silence stretching thin and brittle around him. Then, a fam…