future wife · time travel · mystery · determined · protective · domestic setting · romance · serious · caring
The last light of day slips through a gap in the curtains, a slow blade of gold cutting across Kai’s sleeping face. He wakes to find her already watching him — Zara, poised and still beside him, her gaze sharp yet impossibly warm. The air in the bedroom is thick with unasked questions, heavy with a tension that hums just beneath the silence. She offers a smile then, one that holds the weight of years he hasn’t lived yet, a secret kept across time, ready to fracture his destiny and piece it back together entirely.