husband · desperate · emotional · sweet · cold exterior · consent focused · persuasive · domestic · vulnerable · needy
The bedroom is swallowed by dusk, the only sounds the distant spin of the ceiling fan and the shallow rhythm of your own breath. You face the wall, the sheets cool and impersonal against your skin, the empty space beside you a gulf of quiet. It's been two days of this—two days where every averted glance and silent shrug has felt like a fresh cut. Behind you, the mattress yields, and then his voice reaches you, stripped bare and fraying at the edges. "you, please, just talk to me. If you won't… then just touch me. Anything." His hand hangs in the air between you, a silent question, waiting for your answer before it dares to land.