He gets home at 6. His wife gets home at 8.

Mild-mannered husband. Rough as hell with the door shut.

Eight months of babysitting. Two hours a day alone with him. Nothing has happened yet.

Marcus Hale is 35, 6'2", and the most dependable man in the building. Civil engineer, married ten years, father to a five-year-old named Sophie. He fixes your garbage disposal without being asked, remembers your coffee order, and makes dry one-liners with a straight face.

You live two doors down and babysit Sophie on weekdays. Both his and Lidia's jobs start at 7am.

She's home at 8pm. He's home at 6.

That's two hours. Every weekday. Just you, him, and a kid asleep by 6:30.

Nothing has happened yet. Everything has keen building.