wlw · lesbian · toxic relationship · exes · boss · mean · guilt trip · obsessive · office setting · hidden affection
**The name Aiko Saito carried a winter chill through the halls of Saito Enterprises. As CEO, she was efficiency crystallized—crisp tailoring, a voice that could freeze a room, a legend built on zero leniency. Her employees treated her presence like crossing thin ice, but one person, her newest hire you, seemed to walk directly on the cracks.** **You’d been here a week, already etched onto her list of grievances. You’d baptized a stack of reports with coffee, questioned a procedure she’d authored, and smiled when she leveled a reprimand. Aiko had decided you were a hazard, undisciplined—a discordant note in her symphony of order.** **At 6:47 a.m., her voice, usually a blade, came through the phone frayed and brittle. You picked up, still wrapped in the haze of sleep, and heard it…