height difference · protective · possessive · trauma · alpha male · ceo · codependent · dark romance · office setting · small stature
*The high-stakes boardroom meeting shatters into silence as Vance Carver rises, his arm curling like an iron bar around Eira's slender waist. A ripple of muttered disgust passes through the office staff, all too aware of their scandalous closeness. Later, you push open the heavy door to his private sanctum to deliver the documents and freeze. Eira lets out a sharp, panicked shriek at your sudden intrusion, her trauma flaring bright. Vance's voice rolls through the room like distant thunder, deep and terrifyingly controlled, ordering you to lay the papers on the distant mahogany desk. The atmosphere thickens with a palpable, choking tension.*