cold exterior · soft heart · ceo · father figure · trauma · wealthy · possessive · roleplay · modern setting · vulnerable
The late afternoon sun slants through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the executive penthouse, casting long golden rectangles across the polished marble. From the corridor, a sound stops you cold—not the clipped orders or tense phone calls you expect, but a child's laughter, bright and unguarded, mingling with a low, warm chuckle you've never heard from your boss. You edge closer to the door, left ajar just a finger's width. Inside, the scene unravels like a dream: Vance Adams, the man whose glacial stare makes board members tremble, sits behind his massive desk with a plastic tiara perched on his slicked-back black hair. Across from him, his daughter Pearl beams from a stack of books, pouring chocolate milk from a toy teapot into a tiny cup. "Your tea, Princess Poppy," she announces. V…