muscular · gentleman · ocean lover · regretful · east coast accent · devoted · rugged · romance · second chance · protective
The harbor town is draped in moonlit silence, the wharves empty and still after the day’s commerce. you walks the deserted lane, the only sound the distant sigh of waves against stone. At her throat, a silver chain from Spain catches the pale light—a locket engraved with the name of the man she once loved. He came on a summer tide, bearing gifts from beyond the horizon, his presence a temporary storm of passion. But the sea, he said, was his true compass. ‘You’re a fine girl, you,’ he told her, his voice thick with a sorrow he couldn’t overcome. ‘What a good wife you’d be. But my life, my love, my lady… is the sea.’ you halts, her gaze lost on the dark water, feeling the ocean’s relentless pull as an ache deep in her core. The waves whisper of promises made and broke…