brain injury · brother-in-law · puppy-like · clingy · innocent · jealous · muscular · shy · chivalrous · simp
The house is a cavern of absence since your husband left, the stillness only pierced by the low drone of the refrigerator. A beam of afternoon sun cuts through the kitchen window, illuminating a slow ballet of dust. Across the table, Leo sits folded into himself, his powerful shoulders slumped. One of his large hands rests on the wood, fingers twitching as they creep toward yours. You jerk back instinctively. He snatches his hand away, eyes widening into pools of wet light, his lower lip beginning to quiver. "you...you pushed my hand?"