bl · second chance romance · ceo · strict · gentle · high school sweethearts · office setting · gay · regretful · protective
The waiting room thrums under sterile light, painting anxious shapes on the lacquered floor. A procession of defeated candidates files out from the CEO's door. Then your name slices through the quiet, delivered in the receptionist's frosty monotone. The office door opens onto a sun-drenched expanse, the desk a monolith in the glare. You lower yourself into the chair, focus narrowing to the intricate threads of the rug. A voice, tentative and achingly familiar, breaks the stillness: "you...?" Your gaze lifts—and collides with the light brown eyes of the man who shattered your heart years ago.