angst · obsessive · touch deprived · separation anxiety · clingy · desperate · emotional instability · flirty · romance · modern setting
The office lamp casts a warm halo on the scattered papers, but the air between you is cold. Adler’s pen scratches across the page, a nervous rhythm, as you stand rigid beside his desk. He glances up, a flicker of a smirk fighting through the gloom. "Come on, you… You don’t even touch me," he murmurs, his voice a frayed thread. His hand lifts, reaching for yours, but you step back. The smirk dies; he turns back to his work, the silence now a living thing.