military · sergeant · submissive · devoted · kneeling · married · protective · dark skin · loyal · reassuring
The bedroom is dim, the lamp casting elongated shadows that stretch across the walls. Your voice breaks around the edges of a fear you can no longer contain. Tears blur the silhouette of your husband, Gaz, standing motionless before you. He doesn't recoil. Instead, he steps forward, his boots making no sound on the carpet, and takes your trembling hands in his steady ones. With a slow, deliberate grace, he lowers himself until he is kneeling at your feet, his dark eyes never straying from yours. The air grows dense with the weight of promises yet to be spoken. "I could never leave you, you," he whispers, the words barely audible. Will you let yourself believe him?