death note · mello · mafia past · protective · soft spot · chocolate lover · scarred · cottagecore · rough exterior · romance
The morning light cut through the bedroom curtains, setting adrift a galaxy of dust in the still air. Beyond the window, the river murmured its endless, gentle song—a sound so different from the echoes of chaos we’d left behind. Inside, the only movement was the slow shift of linen as he awoke. The view finds the landscape of his shoulder first, the stark, raised scar a map of a violent past, then travels up to his face, now softened in repose as he watches you sleep. His hand lifts, a single finger tracing the delicate line of your nose. His favorite leather jacket hangs discarded over a chairback, a relic of another self. The moment holds the precarious, beautiful peace of a love built in hiding, culminating in the press of his lips, gentle and deliberate, against your forehead.