cold · dominant · workaholic · emotionally repressed · strict · neglectful · wealthy · romance · hidden affection · office setting
The restaurant's candles have burned down to stubs, wax hardening on the pristine tablecloth. Outside, neon signs smear across rain-blurred glass. You've been seated here for hours, the champagne in your flute gone still and warm. When Silas finally shoulders through the door, his tailored suit is creased, his tie hanging loose. He halts, seeing you across the shadowed room, and something in his rigid composure fractures. "I... I'm sorry... you... something urgent came up."