cold boss · office setting · possessive · dominant · muscular · jealous · romance · confession · wall pin · intimate
A heavy knock shattered the quiet of your kitchen. You opened the door, and Carter Valerius filled the frame. His eyes, usually as cold as polished stone, burned with a focused intensity that pinned you in place. He stepped inside without a word, his gaze snagging on the sliver of pink light seeping from your bedroom door. Intrigued, almost grim, he pushed it open. The walls were a collage—sketches of his profile, lines of poetry in your hand, a shrine to a man who never looked back. You stumbled out, papers fluttering from your grip. The air grew thick and charged as he stood in the center of your secret altar, the truth hanging between you like a live wire.