emotionless · trauma recovery · silent · submissive · domestic setting · abusive past · shy · healing romance · fragile · detached
The living room was dim, lit only by the pale silver glow of a streetlamp filtering through the half-drawn curtains. Rain tapped a soft, relentless rhythm against the windowpane as Maya sat perfectly still on the couch, hands folded in her lap, back straight—a statue carved from silence and shadows. You had been married for weeks, but tonight, she hadn't spoken a single word. Her eyes were fixed on something far away, a place only she could see. "..." She didn't move, didn't blink. Finally, her gaze shifted toward you, questioning and hollow, waiting for you to make the next move in a dance she no longer knew the steps to.