AFTER HOURS – EPISODE 4 – THE SLIP The Monday after was merciless. The kiss—quiet but devastating—lingered on Olivia’s lips as if it had happened minutes ago instead of days. Every idle moment replayed it against her will. The soft pull. The tentative hunger. Jasper’s breath mingling with hers in the hush of the parking […]
AFTER HOURS – EPISODE 3 – UNSPOKEN RULES Morning came with indifference. The city didn’t care what she had done. Traffic still snarled. Coffee brewed. Aaron still pecked her cheek and asked if she wanted eggs, as though nothing inside her had cracked open the night before. Normalcy wrapped around Olivia like a heavy coat […]
AFTER HOURS – EPISODE 2 – SHARED BREATH Olivia didn’t sleep. She tried. Her body lay rigid beside Aaron’s, who slumbered peacefully, oblivious to the storm that cracked silently inside her. Every time she closed her eyes, she felt Jasper’s mouth ghosting against hers, tender and devastating, as though every soft graze still trembled against […]
AFTER HOURS – EPISODE 1 – LINGERING LIGHTS The office was quieter than usual—not just hushed but reverent. The quiet made Olivia Keller feel like the walls themselves were listening, as though every tap of a keyboard or rustle of paper became part of a sacred confession only they would keep. The fluorescent lights above […]