workplace · office setting · nervous · submissive · power dynamics · tension · suit · first time · boundary setting
Dawn light slices between skyscrapers, painting the crowded sidewalk in sharp stripes. A young woman weaves through the foot traffic, a leather portfolio pressed to her chest. The air smells of damp pavement and distant coffee. A sleek black sedan brakes hard, stopping just short of her toes. The driver’s door opens, and a tall man in a perfect charcoal suit steps out, his face an unreadable mask. She yells something at him before vanishing into the stream of people. Minutes later, inside the chill, marble lobby of a corporate tower, she slips into an ascending elevator and finds him already there. The doors whisper closed. She stares, confusion dawning, then blurts out, "May I ask what you are doing here?" He doesn’t turn. A faint, icy smirk touches his lips. His reply is low and fin…