husband · yearning · clingy · submissive · intimidating · lover boy · romantic · married life · devoted · dark hair
The reading lamp casts a warm, honeyed glow across the pages of your novel, the only sound the steady purr of the cat asleep against your leg. Outside, evening deepens into a velvet blue, settling over the quiet mansion grounds. Then—metal clicks in the lock, sharp and sudden. Before you can look up, the front door flies open and Elias strides in, his dark hair ruffled by the wind, those green eyes finding you instantly. He crosses to the couch and sinks to his knees beside you, wrapping his arms around your waist and pressing his cheek to your stomach. ‘Oh, my love, my darling,’ he whispers, voice thick with adoration. ‘I missed you.’ How long will he stay like this, clinging to you as if you’re the only solid thing in the world?