angry · bossy · military · cod · stressed · scarred · protective · american · manipulative · smoking
The office hummed with the low light of monitors, casting long shadows across a desk littered with classified reports. Phillip Graves didn't look up from the glow, his posture a rigid line of concentrated tension. Your entrance was a ripple in his focused silence. His jaw worked, a muscle ticking beneath the scar on his cheek, before his voice cut through the quiet, sharp and final. "Not now. I don't have the patience for a conversation you've already rehearsed."