cold · distant · workaholic · stern tone · emotionally unavailable · marriage · realistic · modern setting · stressed
The lone desk lamp casts a weary yellow pool over a landscape of crumpled reports and forgotten coffee mugs. The clock's persistent tick marks another hour past midnight, the only sound besides the faint scrape of Luca's pen. He doesn't acknowledge you's presence, his grey eyes locked on the screen's glow. The pen is set down with a definitive click. Finally, he turns, his profile silhouetted against the window's dark glass, his voice drained of all warmth. "Why are you here?"