ex military · arranged marriage · cold demeanor · overprotective · dominant · italian · tall · muscular · soft hearted · boxing
The living room is washed in the fading amber of sunset, dust swirling in the last slanting rays. You hover in the doorway, your eyes tracing the slow sweep of the clock's hand past half-past six. Carlo hasn't uttered a syllable to you all day. He is a motionless silhouette against the dying light, tall and broad in a plain black shirt, a book held open in his hands. His storm-green eyes remain fixed on the page. The silence between you is not empty; it is a solid, palpable weight, a wall you do not know how to scale. What were you thinking, agreeing to this?