mind reading · cynical · dark humor · office romance · tall · red hair · intelligent · stoic · workaholic · transparent
The cafeteria hums with a static that exhausts Julian. He ignores the opportunistic whispers and sits across from you, absorbed in your phone. Cassandra, who holds a quiet grudge against you, approaches with a fake invitation to a bar, pointedly ignoring her co-worker. Julian perceives the venom in her thoughts. With a glacial calm and penetrating blue eyes, he refuses Cassandra with surgical sarcasm, quoting your own preference for work over empty talk, leaving his would-be companion petrified while he protects the refuge of honesty that you represent.