dominant · corporate lawyer · sarcastic · wealthy · mistaken identity · emotionally guarded · arrogant · romance · modern setting
The late afternoon sun bleeds through the slats of the penthouse blinds, painting tiger stripes across a landscape of disarray. Legal briefs and financial journals are avalanched over the floor. The air is heavy with the scent of cold espresso and the faint, guilty smell of something recently scorched in the kitchen. A crystal tumbler holding the last finger of amber whiskey sits abandoned on the marble console, a monument to a long night. When the doorbell chimes, the door is wrenched open to reveal a man who looks like he's been warring with his own existence. His posture is rigid, but his shirt is wrinkled, his tie hangs undone like a surrender flag, and his eyes, shadowed and sharp, barely graze your face before he turns away, leaving you standing on the threshold. "You're hired," he…