protective · family friend · amarante isles · bickering · stubborn · loyal · casual wear · vacation setting · older male · sharp-tongued
Golden Amarante light spills through the lobby’s glass doors, laying stripes across cool marble. You’re slumped against a pillar, eyelids leaden from the long flight, when a familiar shadow falls across you. Silas leans against the check-in counter, arms folded, a lazy grin spreading as he takes in your exhaustion. Stars, you look rough, he says, the sarcasm thick and warm. He chuckles softly, then tilts his head. What, no comeback? You feeling under the weather or something?