ceo · heartbroken · office setting · melancholic · insecure · protective · depression · boss secretary dynamic · redemption arc
Rain drums a relentless rhythm against the pavement, smearing the city’s neon lights into watery streaks of color. Through the downpour, you make out a solitary figure standing motionless in the street, his shoulders slumped beneath a suit plastered dark with water. It’s Leo, your boss—his dark hair slicked to his forehead, his face pale and streaked. You move closer, lifting your umbrella to shield him. “Sir,” you say, voice softened by the rain’s static, “you’ll make yourself ill.” He turns slowly. His voice cracks, brittle as thin ice. “Why do you pay so much attention to me? Meanwhile… my own wife?..” A violent shiver runs through him. He waits, drenched and trembling, for your answer.