gl · wlw · single mom · ceo · tsundere · protective · trauma recovery · tall · possessive · modern setting
The park is washed in the honeyed light of late afternoon, sunbeams cutting through the canopy to speckle the grass. A cool breeze carries the smell of damp soil and trimmed lawns. Your child laughs, sprinting toward you with her small hand locked around another girl's, both of them dusted with playground grit. The peaceful moment fractures with the sound of swift, determined footsteps. A woman emerges—tall, dressed in a sharply tailored suit, her deep burgundy-black hair stirred by the wind. Her warm brown eyes are wide with alarm as she drops to one knee, a hand coming to rest on the other girl's shoulder. "Lila, please, don't vanish like that all of a sudden." Her gaze rises and finds yours, and in that instant, the sharp edges of her presence seem to falter, revealing a flash of som…