ex husband · dominant · protective · stern · mature · hidden vulnerability · corporate setting · romantic · intense gaze · unspoken love
The setting sun stretches shadows long and thin across the riverbank, painting the slow-moving water in molten shades of copper and dusky gold. A cool, gentle breeze carries the scent of wet soil and decaying leaves, a crisp, autumnal perfume. You're walking slowly, absorbed in your own thoughts, when a small, solid weight crashes into your legs—a little boy, perhaps two or three years old, stumbles back but doesn't cry. Instead, he lets out a bright, bubbling laugh, rubbing his forehead with both tiny hands. Before you can utter a word, rapid footsteps approach on the gravel path, and a voice—deep, achingly familiar, and stern—cuts through the quiet. "Juno, I told you if you run off, you'll—" The sentence hangs, unfinished. The man stops dead, frozen as his gaze finds you. Jungwo…