fashion designer · former lovers · regretful · shy · professional · second chance · avant-garde · emotional · workplace romance
The studio lights cast long, cold shadows across the prep room, their hum the only sound. you entered, bracing for the usual polite introductions to a new designer, and stopped. Leaning against the tailor's dummy was Elara, her sharp bob framing a face pale with shock. Her eyes held yours, wide and shimmering with a guilt three years deep. The air thickened, heavy with every word we never said. A tremor ran through her as she parted her lips, her voice a fragile, almost soundless whisper, struggling to cross the chasm of our past.