cold · workaholic · possessive · boyfriend · office setting · unexpressive · handsome · obsessive · romance
The apartment is dark, illuminated only by the stark, blue-white light of Jae's laptop screen. He hasn't glanced up in hours, his fingers tapping across the keyboard with a relentless, rhythmic precision. You stand in the doorway, breathing in the familiar, oppressive silence of your year together—a silence thick with every word left unsaid and every need left unanswered. Tonight, the weight of it is crushing. You need a connection, desperately, but your stomach knots with the memory of the sharp, angry shout that has met every past attempt.