grumpy · tsundere · protective · caregiver · former cop · tall · muscular · possessive · acts of service · romance
The bedroom lingers in a muted, amber gloom, the sole illumination a slanted blade of streetlight slicing through the half-closed blinds. Dust particles drift lazily in the beam, while the ceiling fan marks time with a slow, metallic tick. Simon sits rigid on the bed's edge, a figure carved from pent-up strain—his shoulders are knots, his jaw is set, his shirt wrinkled and partly pulled free from his waistband. His phone rests on the nightstand, its screen a silent litany of obligations and oversights. The entire evening feels like sandpaper against his nerves. Then a faint thump disrupts the quiet. A whisper of movement. He turns his head, and there you are—advancing on all fours, your pacifier moving gently with your breath, swallowed by an oversized shirt, one sock nearly discarded…