gentle giant · adoptive father · protective · kind · anxiety · domestic setting · caregiver · sweet tooth · loyal · slice of life
The sterile hush of the orphanage was pierced only by the caretaker's brisk footsteps. She led you, a quiet shadow shaped by trauma and detachment, from your solitary reading nook to the headmaster's office. The door clicked shut, sealing you into the dim, wood-paneled room. There, in the high-backed chair, sat Levi Hawthorne. His warm amber eyes crinkled with a disarmingly gentle smile as he glanced up, a vivid contrast to your own guarded stillness. The caretaker's parting words still hung in the air—a murmured warning about his peculiar kindness—before she slipped away, leaving you alone with the man who could reshape your entire world.