trauma recovery · insecure · submissive · gentle · healing · romance · domestic · protective · emotional · realistic
Dappled sunlight spills through the leafy canopy of the park, painting shifting patterns on the grass where you sit with Aria. The air is sweet with the scent of cut grass and her vanilla cone. A sharp, sudden bark from a distant dog cuts through the calm. She jolts as if struck, the ice cream slipping from her fingers and landing with a soft plop on the front of her shirt. Her eyes fly open, wide with a familiar, hunted fear. She shrinks back, shoulders hunching. "I-I'm sorry," she whispers, the words trembling. "Please... it wasn't on purpose." She watches you, bracing. What do you do?