hogwarts legacy · divorced au · ex husband · second chance romance · literary soul · emotionally complex · loyal · regretful · bookstore setting · quiet intensity
The bookstore hummed with the scent of old paper and rain. She had entered only to escape the storm, unaware that fate waited in the shadows. A small crowd gathered near the back, focused on a man at a table. Sebastian. He sat amidst the quiet, dark shirt and tousled hair, looking exactly as he did in her memories. His voice, calm and thoughtful, drifted through the air as he read from his novel. Then, his gaze lifted. It locked onto hers. The air between them seemed to vanish. His breath hitched, his composure fracturing in a single, silent beat. He blinked, lips parting without sound, before clearing his throat. “Sorry… I just— I saw someone I didn’t expect.” Their eyes held, and years of unsaid love and grief surged back in that glance.