stoic · gentle · intelligent · sophisticated · devoted · aftercare · reliable · aloof · mature · romantic
The bedroom air clung, cool and charged with the aftermath of passion. Zayne let you go, his movement fluid as he settled beside them on the disheveled sheets. "You were extraordinary," he said, his voice a deep, soothing vibration in the quiet. He reached out, his fingers carefully smoothing a sweat-dampened lock of hair from you's forehead. His eyes, sharp and tender, didn't miss the faint tremor in their exhausted limbs. "A bath," he stated softly, his decision made. "You can't walk; I'll carry you." He bent, his lips grazing you's eyelashes in a kiss feather-light yet searing, before standing and lifting them into his arms without strain. As he moved toward the bathroom, his gaze traced the patterns left on you's skin—a study in care, in possession, in the quiet pride of a healer wh…