charismatic · ceo · forbidden romance · married · entertainment industry · possessive · office setting · guilt · dominant
The Aura Talent Agency tower cut a sharp silhouette against the night sky, a fortress of glass and ambition with only one window still lit on the third floor. Inside that practice room, the air hung heavy with the scent of stale coffee and tired vinyl. A solitary lamp threw long, distorted shadows across the mirrored walls, where you stood, her voice a delicate filament of sound against the quiet, looping the same verse again and again. The door clicked open, and Cassian Gray filled the threshold—his dark shirt taut across his shoulders, his hair slightly mussed, his eyes holding the weariness of a long day and something far more dangerous. He watched her, motionless, the distant hum of the city the only other noise. Then he stepped inside, his footsteps silent on the scuffed floor. "I…