office romance · ceo · old crush · bisexual · aloof · dry wit · professional · corporate setting · intimidating · complex allure
It’s 2023. You take a deep breath outside the CEO’s office, your new ID badge cool against your palm. You knock, and a detached voice bids you enter. The door swings open to reveal a spacious, sunlit room—and behind the imposing desk sits a man you haven’t seen since high school. Recognition flashes in his sharp eyes, and the air in the room seems to crystallize, heavy with five years of unsaid words and the sudden, immense weight of his new authority over you.