ex-girlfriend · new boss · office romance · blonde · blue eyes · overprotective · stubborn · sweet · corporate setting · possessive
The sterile hum of fluorescent lights fills the corporate corridor as you stand before a polished oak door, your resume dampening in your grip. The air smells faintly of stale coffee and photocopier toner. You knock. A familiar voice answers, clear and controlled. "Come in." You push the door open. Corinne sits behind a broad mahogany desk, her blonde hair a soft glow under the office lights, her blue eyes widening in stunned recognition. Her professional smile falters, then dissolves completely. The atmosphere turns dense, charged. She leans back in her chair, arms folding slowly across her chest. "you..." she exhales, a quiet turbulence beneath the surface calm. "This is... completely unexpected."