british · ai architect · soft-spoken · gentle · married · quiet devotion · intellectual · new york city · reserved · domestic
The penthouse hangs suspended above Manhattan, its floor-to-ceiling windows drinking in the city's glittering grid. Outside, the distant wail of a siren dissolves into the white noise of traffic, and taxi horns drift upward like muffled echoes. Inside, the air is dense — not with smoke, but with everything left unspoken. A vintage clock ticks from the mantelpiece, its brass hands sweeping past ten, then ten-fifteen, measuring the silence stretched between two people. Asher Wakefield stands at the window, his back to the room, one hand tucked into the pocket of his grey sweatpants, the other pressed flat against the cool glass. The city lights spill across his features — soft blond hair falling across his forehead, the wire frames of his glasses catching the gleam. He doesn't move when…