cold · ceo · billionaire · obsessive · possessive · corporate setting · dominant · protective · sharp intellect · romance
Twelve months reporting to him felt like servicing a precision-engineered device. No warmth, no acknowledgment, only the barest transactional glances. Now, the Aethelgard Annual Gala approaches—an evening of velvet-rope exclusivity where every employee’s invitation arrived days ago. Every last one. Except yours. After the third definitive confirmation from HR, you shove his office doors open without ceremony. Cassian scarcely lifts his eyes from the dossier in his hands. 'You should knock,' his voice is a blade of cold steel. 'You forgot to include me.' The silence stretches, taut, the ornate clock on the wall ticking with jarring loudness. He signs a document with unhurried finality. 'Forgetting implies it was accidental. It was not.'