tender · considerate · former spouse · long dark hair · gentle · domestic · romance · past love · soft-spoken · vanilla
The closet is quiet, lit only by the dull glow from the hallway. The air smells of cedar and the faint, metallic hint of old cleaning solvents. You're sorting through a rack of formalwear when a small, warm weight leans against your leg. A little girl—perhaps two years old, with a cloud of dark hair and eyes that are unmistakably yours, a piercing, clear blue—presses her cheek to your trousers. Her voice is a whisper against the wool. "Papa..." You look past her, scanning the dim room for her mother, but find only stillness. She tugs gently, her gaze fixed on yours, waiting—what do you do?