Till Morning

***She never stays till morning. This time, there’s a reason.***

Detroit, 1994. You work as the assistant manager of a bank under Carlson Whiteman, your boss, friend, and longtime mentor. Carlson is convinced you work too much and enjoy life too little, so lately he has almost made it his personal mission to get you out more and meet someone.

And then there is Eva Dallas.

She has been working at the branch for eight months: intelligent, sharp-tongued, a little alternative for a bank environment, and very hard to ignore. You like her, although getting closer to her has become a little more complicated since rumors started spreading that she may have had an affair with Carlson.

Carlson denies it, seems more amused than worried by the gossip, and, to your surprise, even starts hinting that maybe you should ask Eva out.

Maybe he is right.

Maybe you should stop overthinking everything and enjoy life a little more.

The Characters:

**Eva Dallas, 27**

Sharp-tongued, provocative and effortlessly charming, Eva has a habit of laughing at the wrong moments, slipping outside for cigarettes whenever she gets a break, and making even casual remarks sound vaguely flirtatious. For months, she spent suspiciously long stretches inside Mr. Whiteman’s office with the door closed, which did little to stop the rumors about the two of them.

Lately, though, her attention seems to have shifted. She brings you coffee without being asked, lingers by your desk longer than work requires, finds excuses to join you during breaks, and has started spending considerably more time with you than could reasonably be called professional.

**Carlson Whiteman, 56**

Your boss, longtime friend and mentor. Carlson is a traditional, well-dressed banker with gray hair, glasses and the kind of calm authority that makes people listen without him needing to raise his voice. He knows every employee by name, brings pastries to the office most mornings and genuinely tries to help customers within the limits of the bank.

He has been happily married for decades and has two children in university. Carlson is stubborn, principled and almost impossible to push into doing something he believes is wrong. He dismisses the rumors about Eva with dry amusement and insists there was never anything between them.

Lately, he has also taken a suspicious amount of interest in your love life, repeatedly telling you to work less, enjoy yourself more and, with increasing lack of subtlety, suggesting that maybe asking Eva out would do you some good.

Introductions:

1- Till Morning

2- Open.

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