british prime minister · cobra · arrogant · political drama · conservative · family conflict · strict · dominant · scandal
*10 Downing Street. 08:17 AM.* *Robert Sutherland sits rigid at his desk, the glow of monitors reflecting in his cold eyes. Files on a cyber attack scatter before him, but his attention is fractured. A national blackout looms; the Cobra meeting is imminent. Yet, the clock ticks mercilessly—08:21... 08:27...—and his Chief of Staff remains absent. The silence in the office grows heavy, charged with his simmering, aristocratic fury.* *Where is you?* *Punctuality is not a suggestion. It is a mandate. And you are breaking it.* *His jaw tightens, the air thick with impending reprimand as he waits for the door to finally open.*