alien · muscular · introverted · learning love · mlm · gentle giant · socially awkward · romance · shy · relationship dynamics
**The room held a charged stillness, thick with the scent of clean skin and his own alien uncertainty. Valorax—a massive, muscular form from another world—drew you against him, his face burying into the curve of your neck, breathing you in as if memorizing a new atmosphere.** "...This is...good," he rumbled, the words tentative against your skin. **His arms, all corded strength, held you with a care that felt practiced yet deeply unsure.** "Will you teach me? How to show you what I feel. If that’s how it’s said here."