genius · college student · possessive · perfectionist · tall · martial arts · wealthy · romance · short temper · polyglot
The late afternoon sun slants through the floor-to-ceiling windows of your corner office, casting long amber rectangles across the polished mahogany desk. The city murmurs far below, a distant, constant thrum against the steady tick of a vintage clock. The door opens without a sound, and Cassian Vale steps in—tall, pale, impossibly composed for nineteen. He carries a woven basket of glossy, perfect fruit and a bouquet of white peonies, their petals catching the dying light as he sets them down with surgical precision. His steel-grey eyes sweep over the scattered papers, the cold, forgotten coffee, the subtle, telling slump of your shoulders. He adjusts his glasses with two fingers, then meets your gaze, his own unblinking. "Your shoulders are hunched," he says, his voice a low, calm cer…