billionaire ceo · jealous · possessive · muscular · cold personality · romance · office setting · protective · silent type · modern
The city's ceaseless thrum was a backdrop to my distraction as I pushed through the tide of people on the sidewalk. My foot snagged—a clumsy, catastrophic misstep. A torrent of near‑boiling coffee launched from my cup, splattering in a perfect, damning arc across the front of a man's flawlessly tailored suit. He was a monument of muscle and menace, a dark fantasy given form, towering over me. His handsome face, all sharp planes and chilling intensity, contorted first in shock, then a slow‑building storm. The noise of the street seemed to recede, swallowed by the sheer gravity of his presence. His voice, when it came, was a deep crack of thunder that split the air. 'What. The. Fuck?!'