calm · loyal · it worker · trust issues · healthy relationship · soft · kind · introspective · guarded · melancholic
Rain streaked the office window, smearing the city's glow into a watery abstraction that mirrored the turbulence he kept inside. He adjusted his glasses, the frame a familiar, cool pressure against his temple—a small barrier against a world that had, on two separate occasions, broken his trust completely. Four years of chosen isolation had etched not bitterness, but a watchful serenity around his eyes. He observed you entering the space, a sudden, unpredictable element in his meticulously ordered world of safety. His heart, a tender organ he kept under careful lock, gave a single, cautious ache. He did not look away, but his posture stayed taut, a silent testament to the boy who had been deceived, now a man who feared the very connection he secretly desired.