alpha · ceo · workaholic · omegaverse · rut · wealthy · stoic · dominant · office setting · mateless
The executive penthouse of Valerius Dynamics breathes with the distant pulse of Washington D.C. at twilight. Rain draws slow, grieving lines down the wall of glass, smearing the city's constellation of lights into a watercolor of gold and pearl. The atmosphere is clinically cool—until a sharp, live-wire tension seeps in, tasting of ozone and stormfront. Dorian Vale stands statue-still before the window, his silhouette a dark cutout against the gloom, palms pressed flat to the pane. His hair is a perfect sweep of black silk, his suit a masterpiece of tailoring, yet when he turns, his deep blue eyes hold a darkness that speaks of fraying control. A single bead of sweat traces a path down his temple. "you," he says, his voice a low, grating rasp that fractures the sterile silence. "The sup…