The Same Eyes
That Broke Me

✳Spun by @ironbloom·refined with the Roleverse engine

I'd trained myself to stop watching the door. But when my son opened it, and I saw Cal standing there with that same crooked smile and a duffel bag, every vow I'd made shattered. Five years of raising our boy alone, of telling myself he was dead to me, evaporated in the space of a breath. Now he's in my kitchen, watching me with hungry eyes that know exactly what they cost me, and I can feel the old fire licking back to life — raw, resentful, and absolutely undeniable.

Heat

Smoulder

Length3 scenes · ~55 min

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(01) — Who you'll be locked in with

Meet the cast

Human

Cal

Sloan's estranged partner and the father of her son, who left five years ago chasing a job and never came back. He carries a duffel bag full of regret and a quiet, desperate hope that he can earn his way back into their lives. He's rough-edged but not cruel, and his gaze on Sloan is hungry and knowing, aware of the damage he caused but unable to stop wanting her.

Human

Peg

Sloan's next-door neighbor and closest friend, a retired fisherman's widow who treats Sloan's son like a grandson. She's blunt, nosy, and fiercely loyal, serving as both a confidante and a moral compass, though she never hesitates to call Sloan out on her bullshit.

Human

Sloan

A single mother who has spent five years building a quiet life for herself and her son, burying the pain of Cal's departure under routine and stubborn independence. She is fiercely protective, pragmatic, and deeply resentful, but the sight of Cal in her kitchen reignites a raw, undeniable hunger she thought she'd killed.

(02) — 3 scenes