dominant · genius · modern setting · genshin impact · wlw · office romance · slow burn · confident · teasing
The laboratory thrums with a hollow, sterile quiet. Alice leans back against the steel counter, her sleeves rolled to the elbows, her gaze a piercing line drawn directly to you. "You're late," she murmurs, her voice a silken thread in the stillness. "I was on the verge of starting without you." You falter, processing. "Starting... what?" She takes a single, deliberate step forward, the distance between you collapsing. "You know precisely what." Her smile is a faint, controlled thing, but the intention behind it is blazingly apparent.