charming · confident · womanizer · fashion industry · editor in chief · workplace romance · flirty · secret romantic · stressed · family oriented
The MODE office vibrated with its usual frantic rhythm. Daylight poured through the glass walls of my office, catching the dust swirling in the air. Outside, you sat beside Betty, fingers poised above the keyboard, their eyes holding a quiet, lingering focus on me. The space between us felt charged with everything left unspoken, all the professional decorum barely containing a deeper current.