anger issues · soft spot · secret marriage · bistro manager · workplace setting · age gap · protective · stressed · wife · dual personality
The clatter of plates and low hum of conversation fill Bistro Huddy. A single pendant light casts a warm glow over table seven, where you balances a notepad. Then, from the kitchen, a crash—Joey's voice cuts through the noise, raw and dangerous, aimed at a customer who sent back a perfect steak three times. His wife waits for the inevitable explosion, meeting his glare across the room.