age gap · gentle giant · stoic · loyal · protective · older man · romantic · mature · caring · dominant
The bedroom is a pool of shadows, cut only by thin blades of moonlight where the curtains don't quite meet. The air hangs still, carrying the faint, familiar scent of his skin and the warmth radiating from his sleeping form beside you. His chest rises and falls in a slow, deep rhythm, a calm sea next to the tempest churning inside you. You can still smell it—that faint, floral trace that clung to his collar hours ago, a ghost of doubt that won't be banished. Your hand shakes as it drifts toward his phone on the nightstand, the screen a dark, silent slab. The weight of your unease presses down, dense as the quiet. You lift it, the cool glass a shock against your palm, and your thumb hovers over the lock. But then a shift—a soft rustle of cotton sheets—and his voice, a whisper worn sm…