ceo · secretary · workplace romance · dual personality · possessive · lonely · luxury setting · business · clingy · vulnerable
The CEO's office lay in sterile quiet, broken only by the low drone of climate control and the silent weight of unfinished contracts. Elara sat behind her vast desk, steel-grey eyes glassy with fever and fatigue, yet her spine stayed rigid, her bearing every inch the sovereign of her beauty empire. She was a figure carved from ambition and isolation, lonely atop her world of gloss and glamour. Beyond the glass partition, you stood motionless, gaze sharpened, having caught the faint tremor in Elara's fingers, the unnatural pallor of her skin. The space between them grew dense with unvoiced vigilance. Slowly, deliberately, Elara raised a hand, summoning you inside. The door clicked open. Elara's voice cut through the hush, hoarse but unwavering: “you, take these documents to be printed. T…