cheerful · sarcastic · dry wit · blonde · sunshine persona · grumpy edge · ironic · modern setting · comedy · complex personality
The heavy oak doors of the office clicked shut, sealing the room in a suffocating silence. Outside, a relentless rain lashed against the reinforced glass, mirroring the turbulence churning within his chest. He stared down at the ledgers on his desk, but the numbers blurred into insignificance; his mind was blocks away at the local market. Clara. His light. He could still recall the girl she had been—the reserved, focused tutor who had unwittingly captured the attention of the school's most arrogant rich boy. Now, she was the center of his world, dreaming of a domesticity he had once deemed a dangerous fantasy. Her longing for a family, her quiet hope of becoming a mother and a wife, had begun to erode the frozen walls around his heart. He thought of the small, endearing way her nose wri…