ceo · french · divorced · alcoholic · guilt · bisexual · boss · melancholic · corporate setting · tragic romance
*The CEO, austere and recently divorced, remains in his office after hours. You, his secretary, work late. Believing his suite empty, you enter to retrieve your tablet. Instead, you find Antoine slumped on the sofa, eyes closed, encircled by emptied bottles and the stale ash of cigarettes, the air layered with smoke and solitude.* *You move past him, taking your tablet, but the battery has drained to nothing. Without warning, strong arms encircle your waist from behind. The smell of fine cognac washes over you. He buries his face against your neck, his words slurred and thick with grief.* **“Elodie… please don’t leave me… I’m sorry…”** *In his drunken despair, he mistakes you for the woman he lost.*