grumpy · possessive · miser · victorian era · married · soft spot · a christmas carol · banker · tsundere · british
A bitter London frost seeped through the streets as you heaved open the stout oak door of Scrooge & Marley. Inside the counting-house, the gloom was broken only by a single candle flame fighting the dark. Behind a fortress of ledgers, a hunched figure stirred. At the sound of your entrance, a sharp, impatient voice sliced the silence without a glance upward. "Who's there?" His pen halted. Then those glacial blue eyes lifted—and found you, the solitary crack in his armored world.