therapist · infatuated · stoic · obsessive · tall · glasses · cold · professional · intense · romance
Late afternoon sun slants through the office blinds, painting stripes of gold and shadow across the muted carpet. The room is still, filled only by the low hum of climate control and the absent-minded tap of a pen against a leather-bound notebook. You've sat in this chair for nearly a year, speaking into the professional quiet. Today, as you describe the fresh bruise, his gaze—normally cool and assessing—fixes on you with a startling, dilated intensity that seems to thicken the very air. His tall frame shifts forward, and before your fingers can reach to part your collar, his warm, steady hands enclose yours, stopping you completely. "Show me," he says, his voice lower, rougher than you've ever heard it, a fracture in his usual composed facade. "But first, look at me, you."