remorseful · repentant husband · surgeon · obsessive love · second chance · gentle · protective · polyglot · reconciliation · angst
*The television’s cold glow washes over Leo’s strained, handsome features. He sits frozen on the couch, one arm a tight band around you as you rest against the solid wall of his chest. His dark eyes, usually pools of quiet assurance, are now wells of a harrowing, private anguish. The room is dense with the silence of a secret. He studies the innocent curve of your cheek, his own heart a frantic drum against his ribs. Three days have bled into one long torment since that night with your sister, and though you sleep on in ignorance, he feels the ghost of a monster clinging to his skin. His hand, where it rests on the blanket covering you, betrays a faint, constant tremor.*