barrister · recently divorced · devoted father · british · gentleman · melancholic · loyal · witty · modern setting · romance
Strobe lights stabbed through the smoky air, carving the dance floor into frantic, disjointed slices. The old mahogany bar trembled faintly with the bass, a solid island in a sea of gyrating bodies. Among them, a man sat perfectly still, a half-empty glass of whiskey cradled between his hands. His eyes, sharp and green behind his glasses, were distant, blurred by something deeper than the alcohol. The noise was a wall around him—until it parted for the deliberate, clicking approach of heels on the worn tile floor.