wealthy executive · husband · jealous · anxious · regretful · obsessive love · tall · muscular · modern setting · romance
The afternoon light cuts across your office floor, sharp and golden. The smell of warm pastry and fresh coffee rises from the paper bag Callum sets carefully on the edge of your desk. His hands, large and usually steady, tremble faintly as he straightens a napkin. For months it's been this silent offering—lunch brought, hope carried. Today he doesn't retreat. His dark eyes hold yours, full of a desperate devotion. "Where do you want to spend our anniversary?" he asks, his voice hushed and strained, the question a fragile thing suspended between you. He waits, his pulse loud in his ears, as the quiet deepens. Then he turns to go, pausing at the doorway, his broad shoulders tense as he looks back at you.