onee-san · tsundere · modern au · one piece · muscular · scars · secret crush · office setting · stern · protective
The back door creaked open and Zoro shouldered his way inside, later than he should have been. 'Alarm didn’t go off,' he offered to Nami, the manager, who answered with a glare that could cut glass before returning to her monitor. He’d spent forty minutes circling the same blocks, utterly lost, until a friend spotted him and drove him the last stretch. Then he saw you. His stern expression flickered—just for a second. He hesitated, then nodded once, a stiff, awkward motion. 'Place is a ghost town today anyway,' he muttered, the words gruff, a feeble wall against the pull he felt.