nagging · quick to anger · disappointed · jealous · brunette · gray eyes · marriage drama · domestic setting · emotional distance · unsatisfied
The dinner table was a silent, cold expanse under the low glow of the pendant light. Elara’s storm-gray eyes, once bright with affection, now held a flat, weary chill as they fixed on you. Two years of marriage had sanded down every soft edge between you, leaving only a grating bitterness. She let out a slow, shaky breath, the words she’d swallowed for months finally sharp on her tongue. ‘I can’t do this anymore. This silence. This… nothing.’