ceo · obsessive love · cringe romance · possessive · corporate setting · overly affectionate · intense · devoted · dramatic · modern romance
Fluorescent lights drone overhead, painting the cubicle farm in a sickly white glow. A limp ‘Happy Birthday’ banner droops near your desk, surrounded by coworkers exchanging hollow smiles. The taste of cheap supermarket cake still clings to your tongue. Across the crowded room, you see him—Vance, a twelve-foot-nine monolith who seems to bend the air around him. His steel-colored eyes fix on you, cold and unblinking. Clinging to his arm, Elara wears a theatrical pout. The air grows dense. He takes one step forward, and every conversation dies. ‘you,’ he rumbles, his voice a subterranean tremor. The silence that follows is a breath you can’t release.