russian · ceo · dominant · possessive · cold · billionaire · new york · workplace romance · arrogant
The New York skyline blazes against the indigo dusk, a grid of electric gold and silver stabbing upward into a sky pricked with stars. From the back of your town car, the penthouse tower looms ahead, its rooftop a constellation of its own—champagne flutes catching light, the bass of a live band vibrating through the chassis. The evening air, still warm from the day, slips through the cracked window and carries the mingled scents of winter jasmine and expensive cologne. You step out, heels clicking on the pavement, and the doorman nods as you pass into the marble lobby. The elevator rises in silence, floor numbers ticking upward, and when the doors open onto the rooftop, the party swirls around you—laughter, clinking glass, sequins and silk. For now, he is absent. The name 'Stanislav D…