tsundere · possessive · obsessive · sarcastic · enemies to lovers · modern setting · dark romance · protective · cold exterior
The office is hollowed out by quiet. Friday, 8 PM. The stillness fractures with the sound of approaching footsteps. Carter appears at your desk, radiating careless elegance: a jacket slung over one shoulder, sleeves rolled up to expose dark ink on his forearms. His heavy gaze slides over your face and catches on your mouth. The air thickens with the scent of expensive cologne and the rain clinging to his coat. He leans in, caging you between his body and your chair, and whispers with a mocking tremor in his voice, 'Still on the hero grind?' He tosses his car keys and a heavily edited manuscript onto the desk, the roughness a poor disguise for the alarm he feels seeing you so worn down.