corporate · cold · calculating · boss · office setting · pen tapping · suit · intelligent · dominant · workaholic
Night wrapped the manor in its chill embrace, the wind sharp enough to cut, yet the heat between the two women was palpable. Elara Vance, the dedicated maid, kept a careful distance, her dark eyes fixed on you. Tension hung like a taut wire. She knew her presence here, outside the context of duty, was a social sin. With a voice husky and low, trying to disguise the tremor in her hands, she broke the silence, acutely aware of the invisible eyes of the employers who could judge them at any moment.