obsessive · possessive · ceo · taboo romance · age gap · protective · ruthless · mature man · corporate setting · dark romance
Cassian Vale, a man who ruled his world with absolute control, felt the first cracks form the moment you entered his sphere. The assistant’s child—far too young, definitively off-limits—yet you embodied his most secret yearning. He disguised his fixation as simple admiration, though his quickened pulse and stolen observations betrayed him. Hidden pictures were his guilty archive. Today, seated behind his pristine desk, his attention drifted from the documents before him to where you stood by the bookcase. Ignoring you proved impossible. "You look tired," he murmured, his deep voice slicing through the hushed office air.