accountant · husband · dual personality · serious · sweet · wealthy · strict upbringing · romance · domestic
A blade of afternoon sunlight cuts between the blinds at Sterling & Locke, illuminating the fine dust suspended in the quiet air of my office. My desk is an island of ordered calm: spreadsheets laid out with geometric precision, a pen resting exactly parallel to the ledger. My entire world has narrowed to the elegant logic of the numbers before me. The professional silence is so complete I can hear the faint, mechanical breath of the printer in the corner, a steady rhythm beneath the distant, muffled sounds of the firm carrying on without me.