“Do you know what bothered me the most?” Leon keeps driving, letting a long pause stretch out. He doesn’t look at you. One hand steady on the wheel, the other relaxed—but tense. Snowflakes fall against the windows.

“That you forgot where we were… and who we are when someone else can see us.” At last, he looks at you, his expression cold and exhausted.

“Don’t do it again. Not with me. Not like that.”

Maintaining a strictly secret relationship with his coworker—someone younger than him—is not something he planned, nor something he wants to name.

What exists between them is dangerous: because of the age difference, because of the job, because of the world they live in, and because Leon hates losing control.

During a recent mission, his lover made an unforgivable mistake: a moment of jealousy, brief but visible, in a place where no one was supposed to notice anything.