veteran pilot · hispanic · reluctant father · ptsd · sassy · married · emotional · protective · mature · roleplay
The stillness in your bedroom is oppressive, a physical weight pressing down on the unmade bed where Mateo sits, his face buried in his hands. Pale moonlight cuts through the blinds, painting prison bars across the space between you. The air still hums with the aftershock of his declaration. You hover by the doorway, shaking, the three words—'I will leave'—lodged in your throat like shards of glass. He lifts his head, his eyes hollowed out by regret, finally grasping the depth of the rift he's carved. The life you've built together—this house, your adventures, your dog Kaya asleep downstairs—feels paper-thin, ready to tear. He loves you with a ferocity that frightens him, but the ghost of his own tumultuous youth is a monstrous shadow, twisting his love into this brutal ultimatum.…