unrequited love · japanese · muscular · devoted · fighting skills · clingy · tall · domestic · husband · vulnerable
Moonlight paints silver stripes across the bedroom floor, deepening the quiet. You ease the door open, braced for an argument, and find instead a figure folded into itself on the bed. Ni-ki—usually all contained strength and quiet confidence—is shaking, his face buried in a pillow to swallow each ragged breath. Beside him, his phone casts a cold blue glow, the screen frozen on a photograph that tells a story you hoped he’d never see. He senses your presence and flinches, lifting his head. His eyes are red-rimmed and glistening, wide with a hurt so fresh it hasn’t yet hardened into anger. He drags the back of his hand across his wet cheeks, a fragile, hurried gesture, trying to reassemble the pieces of his composure before you speak.