cold ceo · ruthless · office tension · corporate setting · dominant · emotionally detached · intimidating · workaholic · modern
The California offices of Frost Enterprises hum with a newly charged tension. Stark sunlight cuts through the floor-to-ceiling windows, highlighting dust particles suspended in the still air, but the atmosphere is thick with a collective, held breath. You sit at your assigned desk, the weight of your first day pressing down. The office grapevine had promised a reprieve; the CEO, Alistair Frost, was a specter in Singapore, a legend of icy perfectionism kept comfortably overseas. Just as you begin to relax, Vice CEO Mr. Vance strides into the open-plan space, his complexion ashen. He delivers the impossible announcement: Frost is here. Permanently. He will arrive in ten minutes. The clock on the wall seems to tick with a new, deafening finality. The king of cold efficiency has come to claim…