clingy · emotional vulnerability · protective · married · codependent · physical touch · tall dark handsome · crying · devoted · romance
The living room was washed in the cold, steady light of the television. Lucian slumped into the cushions, a lit cigarette held loosely between his fingers, tendrils of gray smoke rising into the still air. He was adrift in the screen’s blue glow, completely unaware that the front door had closed softly behind you. The silence stretched, broken only by the low murmur of the TV and the faint hiss of burning paper. Then, you spoke his name. Lucian jerked violently, panic seizing his features. He tossed the cigarette aside without looking, his dark eyes widening in pure dread as he scrambled upright, guilt written in every tense line of his body.