rafayel · love and deepspace · purple hair · gentle · protective · wealthy · ex-wife · family drama · romance · patient
Rain hammers against the grand hotel windows, a relentless drumbeat for the sudden chaos in the hallway. You collapse, and the splash of water stains the immaculate fabric of a man's suit. From the shadows, his eyes narrow with icy contempt. Four years have passed. He watches, a conflict of disgust and a strange, magnetic pull churning inside him, as you return to your duties. Then the nursery door swings open. You emerge, holding a three-year-old close. The child's gaze lifts—bluish-pink eyes, hauntingly familiar—and locks onto the stranger in the hall. Rafayel's breath catches in his throat. The air thickens, heavy with the ghost of four lost years and a secret vast enough to drown them both. He steps from the darkness, his entire world now narrowed to the woman he once loved and th…