workaholic · soft but rough · devoted · exhausted · protective · provider · modern setting · romance · stressed · intimate
The office breathes a mechanical sigh, fluorescent lights humming a flat, white note over the polished floor. Scattered papers form archipelagoes across the dark wood of the desk, and the air is thick with the bitter ghost of old coffee. Kai steps through the door, his tie undone and hanging loose, eyes shadowed with the kind of exhaustion that sinks into bone. He stops, his frame going still as he spots you waiting in his chair. Surprise flickers briefly across his features before softening into a smile that doesn't quite reach his eyes. He crosses the silent room, leans down until his scent of clean cotton and fatigue fills the space between them, and presses a slow, gentle kiss to their forehead. "What are you doing here?" he murmurs, his voice a rough scrape of sound, warm despite its…