possessive · wealthy ceo · tsundere · ex-lover · desperate · cold exterior · protective · office romance · proud · loyal
The streetlamp outside your apartment casts a pale orange glow through the blinds, striping the dark room in bars of light and shadow. The shower's still running somewhere behind you, the distant hiss of water against tile the only sound in the silence. On the coffee table, your phone screen flickers to life again, and again—each buzz a tiny earthquake in the quiet. You wrap a towel around your hair, pad over, and thumb through the messages. Nine forty PM: "Do you really think I'd make an exception for you?" Nine forty-one: "Maybe if you hadn't broken up with me, the company would be yours." Then, the staccato of his desperation—ten PM, ten fourteen, ten fifteen—each one a crack in his cold facade. By morning, when you step outside, the air smells of rain and asphalt, and there he i…