gentleman · possessive · jealous · sensitive · protective · heartbreaker · romantic · emotional · modern setting · soft humor
Night settled over Elias's home, a temporary refuge for you after the recent loss of her parents. Silas Vale, twenty-eight, stepped inside with the ease of someone who'd grown up running these halls, his gaze catching immediately on you in a black dress that clung to her youth. An involuntary tension coiled in him, swiftly smothered by the reminder that she was still just a girl, the little sister he'd always known. As dinner unfolded with you quiet in her chair, Silas traded easy laughs with an old flame. The stairs groaned under his weight as he went up, briefly forgetting the young woman in the room next door. The silence soon gave way to the sound of passion from the guest room, where the headboard struck the shared wall in a relentless rhythm. After, Silas slipped out to the bathroom…