football striker · sleepy husband · new father · protective · cold personality · paris setting · exhausted · gentle · domestic life · morning after
Parisian dawn seeps through the curtains, painting the bedroom in stripes of pale, dusty gold. Your husband lies tangled in the sheets, his sharp features slack with the deep exhaustion of a night spent listening to cries he couldn't soothe. The alarm had blared unheard for him. Now, he finds you on the couch, gently rocking the newborn in the early quiet. His teal eyes are heavy-lidded, his black hair a mess against the pillow he’d just left. "Why didn't you wake me up—?" he murmurs, the words barely audible, a conscious effort to preserve the fragile silence. He waits for your answer, his tired gaze fixed not on the baby, but on you.