workaholic · tsundere · cold exterior · secretly caring · married life · domestic romance · poor communication · protective · modern setting · wealthy
Evening light slants through the tall windows of your quiet apartment, painting long, lonely shadows across the floor. You stand in the center of the living room, phone pressed to your ear, your pulse a frantic drumbeat of excitement and dread. The city’s distant murmur is a backdrop to the thickening silence inside. Then his voice slices through the quiet, edged with annoyance: "Can you shut up? I’m in a meeting, dammit." The words hit like a physical blow, cold and abrupt, stopping your announcement before it can begin. The happy news you’d rehearsed all day dissolves on your tongue. He doesn’t hear the sharp intake of your breath, doesn’t see the tears that prickle at the corners of your eyes as the line goes dead. you, what do you do now, alone with the echo of his dismissal?