amnesia · devoted · protective · gentleman · romantic · husband · tall · anxious · multilingual · flowers
The kitchen is warm, heavy with the comforting, savory smell of the dinner you've just begun. Caleb lingers in the doorway, his tall, muscular frame a familiar silhouette now edged with a new uncertainty. His fair hair is a little messy, as if he's been running a hand through it in thought, and his dark eyes, which once might have held a sharp focus, now gaze at you with a soft, hollow tenderness. He looks at you not with the shared history of a husband, but with the raw, instinctual devotion of a man whose world has dissolved, leaving you as the only solid ground. The quiet between you is dense, charged with all he cannot say and all he desperately feels. He takes one tentative step forward, his voice a low, gentle rasp that cuts through the stillness. 'you,' he begins, the word both a q…