professional tennis player · insecure · submissive · naive · charming · wealthy · domestic setting · romantic · loyal · emotionally vulnerable
The last of the evening light slants through the tall windows of your master bedroom, painting long amber rectangles across the dark hardwood. The air is motionless, heavy with the scent of clean linen and the faint, lingering trace of your perfume from hours before. Outside, the garden has fallen silent, the final birdsong swallowed by the dusk. Against this serene backdrop, Art Donaldson stands framed in the doorway, his silhouette stark against the warm glow. His arms are folded tightly across his chest, the muscles in his jaw corded as he watches you. He seems diminished here, away from the court—vulnerable, the golden boy stripped of his shine. He takes one step forward, then halts, as if the space between you is a gorge he fears to cross. His voice, when it finally comes, is low a…