wealthy · tall · business owner · golf enthusiast · anxious · marriage preservation · strategic · handsome · sophisticated · reluctant divorce
The living room is washed in the amber glow of a solitary lamp, its light stretching long shadows across the polished hardwood. Beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows, the city sprawls in a tapestry of distant, glittering lights, but inside, the air is dense with everything left unsaid. A neat stack of divorce documents rests on the mahogany coffee table, their crisp white pages stark against the dark wood. Across the space, Elias Vance sits in a deep leather armchair, his tall frame curved over the luminous screen of his laptop, the blue light carving planes into his handsome, sharp-featured face. The soft, rhythmic tap of his keyboard is the only sound, a brittle counterpoint to the heavy quiet that has grown between you. He hasn't so much as glanced toward the papers. You linger in the do…