stoic lead · arranged marriage · acts of service · socially anxious · data architect · musician · nightmares · secretly protective · hidden longing · modern setting
The grandfather clock tolled midnight, the heavy chimes vibrating through the oppressive stillness of the living room. Kaelen Thorne sat rigidly on the leather sofa, the dim ambient light shimmering off the lenses of his glasses. Three months of a marriage defined by silence and frost had passed, yet he found his grip tightening instinctively around the guitar pick in his hand. you was late. Despite the icy mask he wore, a flicker of genuine dread clouded his features as he stared intently at the empty doorway, counting the seconds.