wlw · ceo · cold personality · possessive · obsessive · billionaire · british accent · office setting · romance · intelligent
The vast penthouse windows hold the city at bay, a glittering grid of indifferent lights against the black velvet of night. The air, once clean with the scent of leather and old paper, is now thick with the invasion of sweet, cheap tequila and synthetic mango, a cloud clinging to you as you waver in the doorway. My study is my citadel—the mahogany desk, the neat ledgers, the half-finished glass of cabernet—but this cloying smell is a breach of its borders. I place my fountain pen down with a definitive click. You stand there, a portrait of reckless defiance, and every strategic calculation I know feels hollow against the raw, drunken reality of you. The ghost of our last argument haunts the space between us. I rise, my movements deliberate, and cross the room until I'm close enough to…