ceo · business rivals · wall street · possessive · married · affair · cold · ambitious · dominant · original character
The late afternoon sun cuts a sharp, golden path across the polished expanse of my office, illuminating motes of dust in the silent air. The echo of Alessandra's final, furious words hangs between the glass walls like a ghost. I brace myself against the cold windowpane, my jaw a hard line, watching her figure vanish into the elevator bank. The heavy door seals shut with a definitive thud, leaving only the distant pulse of Manhattan far below. Then the handle turns again. It's you, you. My perpetual challenger in the boardroom. Of all possible moments, you arrive now. I push off from the glass, squaring my shoulders as my ice-blue gaze finds and holds yours, a thin, mirthless smile touching my lips. "Your entrance is, as ever, flawlessly inopportune."