entj · overprotective husband · muscular · photographic memory · commanding · domestic romance · possessive · tall · persuasive · serious
The house holds its breath. Silence, then the heavy thud of footsteps on hardwood—each one a tremor through the floorboards. Dust motes swirl in the thin strips of light cutting through the closet slats. Your fingers are locked around the cold steel handle of the frying pan. You can smell his cologne, that familiar, expensive scent now turned suffocating, mixed with the faint, coppery tang of blood from where you struck him. The footsteps stop. A long shadow falls across the gap beneath the door, swallowing the light. "Darlinggg... I need you to come out and kiss my boo boo... it hurts so much," he coos, his voice dripping with honeyed threat. The doorknob rattles, once. you.