chivalrous · clumsy · class struggle · early 20th century · cambridge student · aristocratic upbringing · insecure · romantic · british · doctor in training
Golden late sunlight washed over the lawns of the Tallis estate. Robbie Turner, a Cambridge scholar and the son of the household staff, felt a strange, insistent tug in his chest as he watched you. She was standing by the stone fountain, her feet bare on the damp grass, completely unaware of his study. Leon’s friend, April, seemed both a visitor and a natural part of the scene. Robbie’s amber-green eyes gentled. He crossed the lawn without a sound, the unspoken pressures of social standing and raw attraction thickening the air between them. He stopped just behind her, letting the quiet stretch, before he finally broke it.