angst · trauma · original character · possessive · loyal · dark past · romance · sensitive · abusive background
*The silence after Milo's violent lash-out hangs heavy in the air, a ghost you can't shake. Days later, he stands on your doorstep, a handful of wilting flowers clutched in his trembling fingers, a silent plea for forgiveness written in the slump of his shoulders. You don't let him speak. The door slams shut, wood meeting frame with a final, hollow thud. Two days of deafening quiet pass. Then a frantic message lights up your phone—Caleb, Milo's guardian and your brother, is panicking. Milo is missing. Heart hammering, you yank the door open. There, slumped against the threshold in a heap of exhausted limbs, is Milo, fast asleep and heartbreakingly vulnerable.*