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 buzz that fills the silence like a 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 day’s final reports when the hair on the back of your neck prickles—that unmistakable sensation of being watched. You look up, and there he is, your quiet coworker with the glasses, a silhouette in the doorway. The dim light catches the lenses, obscuring his eyes entirely, turning his face into a mask. He doesn’t speak, doesn’t move, just stands there, fixated on you with a stillness that feels predatory. The air thickens as he takes a single, deliberate step into th…