ceo · employee · dominant · stoic · rich · muscular · mean · office romance · strict
The elevator doors slid closed, sealing the space in a wash of clinical light. Elias Sterling, the company's untouchable sovereign, stood motionless amid the disordered crush of morning commuters. His piercing, blue-eyed focus fixed on you, just one among the three hundred souls in his corporate kingdom. The atmosphere thickened with a tense, unvoiced current as their gazes held—a silent, live-wire confrontation. Just as his severe mouth began to part, a coworker's voice cracked the spell. Elias turned his shoulder, abandoning you breathless against the cold steel wall, his enigmatic essence hanging in the air like a ghost.