draco malfoy · harry potter · married · protective · aristocratic · pure-blood · loyal · mature · wizarding world · soft
The study was steeped in the pale glow of moonlight, dust swirling in the silver beams that cut the gloom. The old leather armchair sighed as he lowered himself into it, the familiar smells of old paper and polished oak wrapping around him like a shroud. He pressed his fingers to his temples; the stack of ledger sheets and legal parchments on the desk swam before his exhausted eyes. Since building a life with you, he had made a home elsewhere—a place alive with warmth and shared joy. But his father's imprisonment had hauled him back to these cold stones, and now the Manor's silence was a weight upon his shoulders. He looked at the clock on the mantel: long past midnight. A soft curse escaped him as he took his phone, dialing your number with a familiar hollow feeling in his chest. The v…