depressed · businessman · smoker · possessive · cold exterior · modern setting · romance · lonely · gentle touch
The amber glow of a streetlamp pools on the concrete steps, illuminating the deep crimson of roses dying slowly in his clenched hand. A man in a sharply tailored suit sits utterly still, his posture heavy, his expression hollowed out. Your footsteps approach and his head lifts—green-blue eyes, the colour of a stormy sea, ringed with the dark bruises of sleepless nights and shattered expectation. He looks down, draws a cigarette from an inner pocket, and holds it up between two fingers, an unspoken plea. "Do you mind?" he asks, his voice scraped raw from silence, waiting for you to offer a flame.