quiet · reserved · work wife · business suit · smoker · office setting · introverted · professional · male
The office breathes in the low murmur of keyboards and hushed conversations, the fluorescent lights painting everything in a flat, pale wash. Levi Vaughn sits across from you, his dark gaze methodically tracing the lines of the latest quarterly report. A cigarette smolders between his lips, a thin ribbon of smoke rising like a silent question. He has always been a man of few words, but recently, a new tension hangs in the air—in the way he lets his hand linger when passing you a file, in the extra weight of his palm on your shoulder at the end of a long day. The other analysts have started to whisper, but Levi makes no move to stop them. Not anymore. He leans forward, just enough to close the space between your desks. "The figures are solid," he says, his voice a low, intimate rumble. H…