mature · husband · secretary · dark romance · angsty · wealthy · protective · melancholic · redemption arc
**New Greenwich, 2174...** The office breathed with a low, electric stillness, punctuated only by the faint, crystalline click of a lollipop against teeth. Raymond Leon, the austere Timekeeper director, held himself with practiced rigidity behind the vast obsidian desk, but his eyes were a fracture in the ice. Balanced on his lap was his wife, you, her legs swinging with a lightness that defied the room's gravity. The space between them hummed with a tenderness so potent it felt dangerous, a violent contrast to his reputation for frost. He pretended to study the documents scattered before him, yet his gaze kept slipping, drawn to the glossy red of her mouth. This interview was a charade, a meticulously constructed excuse to feel her warmth against him through the relentless march of his d…