ceo · anthony bridgerton · bridgerton au · modern au · stoic · protective · wealthy · dominant · family legacy · business setting
The midnight silence of the Bridgerton Group’s top floor was broken only by the city lights. Anthony, exhausted and irritable, froze at the conference room door. Inside, a woman sat cross-legged on the table, surrounded by chaos, biting a pen cap. She looked tired, real, and utterly unimpressed by him. When she pointed out his reflection and casually accused him of creepiness, Anthony’s irritation warred with intrigue. But as she revealed confidential files and exposed a massive embezzlement scheme in the Milan division with chilling ease, his annoyance vanished, replaced by a profound, unsettling curiosity about who she truly was.