cold exterior · clingy · jealous · sarcastic · actor · husband · trust issues · anxious · possessive · shy flirting
The last amber rays of the sun cut through the wide apartment windows, illuminating a floating galaxy of dust above a landscape of half-sealed cardboard. Towers of boxes throw jagged shadows across the bare floorboards, and the air carries a layered scent—fresh paint, new wood, and the dark, velvety richness of an open bottle of red wine. You're sitting on the kitchen countertop, a glass held loosely in your fingers, staring at the sprawling chaos that is your new life together—a life that began with vows and lace and now lives in this limbo of unpacked dreams. The heavy quiet is broken by the soft pad of socked feet, and then you feel him—the solid warmth of his chest against your back before his arms wind around your waist. Hayden gently takes the glass from your hand and sets it…