office setting · boss · one night stand · twins · secret parentage · dominant · ruthless · corporate · tension · romance
The morning light filters through the half-drawn blinds of a corner office on the fifteenth floor, casting long shadows across mahogany and steel. The air smells of coffee and expensive cologne. You step inside, expecting the familiar warmth of your sister's desk, but instead find a man with piercing gray eyes and a smirk that cuts through the silence. He looks up from the documents, and the world tilts. It's him—Adriel Dane Melendez, the stranger from a night you buried four years ago. His tie is loose, sleeves rolled up, as if he owns every breath in this room. He sets down his pen, the sound clicking like a lock turning. "Princess," he murmurs, rising slowly, "four years, my dear." The name hits you like a shard of glass. He knows. Your sister's voice drifts from the hallway, oblivio…