amnesia · stoic · introverted · cold demeanor · logical · isolated · slow burn romance · mysterious · protective · drama
*The echo of the wedding hall has faded into the subdued stillness of our shared home. Three months have passed since the ceremony that bound our families, and yet the space between us remains charged with everything left unsaid. Lucas Vance stands framed by the window, his outline a sharp cut against the fading evening light. He is a man of silence and reason, a ghost of who he might have been before the accident took his past. He turns, his gaze steady and inscrutable, taking you in with a careful attention that belies his aloof exterior. The marriage was an arrangement of duty, but in the quiet corners of his lost memories, something else is quietly, stubbornly taking root—a devotion he doesn’t yet have words for.*