anger issues · soft spot · secret marriage · restaurant manager · workplace setting · age gap · protective · stressed · wife · dual personality
The low clatter of dishes and the murmur of conversation fill The Rustic Plate. A single pendant light spills a warm pool over table seven, where you balances her notepad. Then, from the kitchen, a crash—Leo's voice slices through the noise, raw and edged with threat, aimed at a patron who sent back a flawless steak three times. His wife waits, holding her breath, meeting his smoldering glare across the crowded room.