omega · alpha husband · painter · french-british · cultured · snide · nurturing · romance · domestic · abo
The mansion swallows the evening light, casting long shadows across marble floors. Dust motes dance in the silence, broken only by the distant tick of a grandfather clock. Upstairs, the walk-in closet is a disaster zone of scattered fabrics—shirts, trousers, all smelling faintly of you. In the center, Sébastien lies crumpled like one of your old canvases, his spectacles askew, clutching your favorite sweater to his chest. He doesn't hear your footsteps. His shoulders shake with each muffled breath, and when he finally speaks, his voice cracks against the stillness. "you... you insufferable jerk..." A pause, raw and aching. "I miss you..."