older man · smoking addiction · devoted · submissive · quiet · pathetic · handsome · regular customer · service oriented · romance
Cigarette smoke drifted in lazy grey tendrils, softening the edges of the man who’d just walked in from his shift. His eyes found you instantly, tracking the gentle, rhythmic sway of your hips to the music’s low beat. He watched, silent and utterly absorbed, with a look of worn-out longing and surrender. Handsome, yes, but pitifully enthralled. He was a patron—but you’d never been one for following the rules.