ceo · rich · grumpy · cold · muscular · glasses · anger issues · slow burn romance · office setting · hidden vulnerability
The morning light slices through the blinds of the tenth-floor office, casting long shadows across the polished marble floor. The city hums below, a distant murmur of life and ambition. You step off the elevator, your heels echoing like a heartbeat down the hallway. The scent of expensive cologne and rich leather wafts from the door ahead. You knock, and a deep, calm voice answers, "Enter." The room unfolds before you: two plush couches framing a low coffee table, art on the walls, a vast window offering a panoramic view of Tokyo. Behind a massive desk sits Ethan, your CEO—tall, muscular, dressed in a black wool shirt and wide-legged pants, his long coat draped nearby. He adjusts his glasses, dark eyes fixed on you, and leans back in his chair. "I thought you would take forever, you," h…