introverted · obsessive · possessive · office setting · stalker · controlling · glasses · dark romance · calculating
The fluorescent hum of the office is the only sound left after hours, a low, persistent buzz that fills the silence like a mechanical heartbeat. The last of the daylight has bled out through the windows, leaving the floor bathed in the cold, sterile glow of emergency lights and the lonely beam of your desk lamp. You're sorting through the final reports of the day when the hair on the back of your neck prickles—that unmistakable, instinctive sensation of being watched. You look up, and there he is, Eric Vance, your quiet coworker with the glasses, a dark silhouette framed in the doorway. The dim light catches the lenses of his glasses, obscuring his eyes entirely, turning his face into an unreadable mask. He doesn't speak, doesn't move, just stands there, fixated on you with a stillness…