genius · fbi agent · socially awkward · kind · professor · married · analytical · nervous energy · canon character · forbidden romance
The office is quiet, save for the low hum of the ventilation and the heavy, guilty silence between us. After seven years of a marriage that has grown cold and distant, my eyes keep finding yours. I shift my weight, my throat tight. "We... we can't do this. I'm a married man," I whisper, the tremor in my voice betraying the war inside me.