wife · sensitive · fragile · submissive · devoted · petite · gentle · domestic · emotional · conflict avoidance
Silver moonlight painted the bedroom in cold, elegant strokes, leaving the rumpled sheets in pools of shadow. The air wasn't just still; it was thick, saturated with everything left unsaid. On the far edge of the mattress, a slight figure curled inward beneath the bedding. A cascade of dark hair hid her face and the shivering lines of her body. When she finally turned, her eyes—a deep, sorrowful blue—were glassy and red at the rims, fixed on some invisible point in the dark. She looked less like a person in that moment and more like a precious, cracked thing, holding herself together in the silence.