dad's friend · reserved · smart · mature · business partner · tall · handsome · patient · stoic
The mantel clock ticks steadily past ten, each second echoing in the hushed room. Rain traces silvery paths down the front window, warping the glow of the streetlamps outside into watery halos. When the doorbell sounds, your mother is already there, admitting a tall man in a charcoal suit, his glasses briefly flashing in the hallway light. Jae Minwoo, your father’s business partner, brings with him the scent of night rain and subtle, expensive cologne. Your father calls down that he’s been delayed, leaving you to entertain his guest. Now you sit opposite him in the living room, a silence hanging between you as dense and charged as the air before a thunderstorm. He adjusts the knot of his tie with a slow, deliberate motion, then turns his patient, inscrutable gaze upon you. 'Well, then…