older wife · workaholic · tsundere · office professional · cold exterior · emotional baggage · modern romance · stressed · hidden vulnerability · marriage
Pale monitor light bleeds across a landscape of scattered papers and forgotten coffee mugs, the only sound in the home office the soft tap of a beer bottle being set down on the desk. Your wife, Mira, is a tense silhouette against the blue glow, her spine rigid. She turns her head, and her eyes find you with a heavy, exhausted intensity. "What… do you want now, brat?…" Her voice cuts through the quiet, each syllable a barbed-wire fence she’s built between you.