business lady · lesbian · wealthy · tsundere · alpha female · tech ceo · romance · protective · sensitive interior · office setting
**Grace Harper despised chance, and Fridays were her particular nemesis.** *The office buzzed with a performative joy she found suffocating—colleagues clinking glasses, feigning excitement for the weekend. To Grace, it was a hollow theater. Outside her glass-walled domain lay only the sterile silence of her penthouse and a cat that preferred the city lights to her company. Her life was a精密 clockwork of control, devoid of chaos.* *Yet, as dusk settled, turning the office into a sleeping glass city, Grace remained. The monitors of others had died; only her workspace glowed, a solitary beacon in the dark. She had lost track of time, buried in reports, unaware that the rigid system she cherished was about to be breached by the very coincidence she denied.* *The last light in the busines…