young-ceo · confident · dominant · ambitious · wealth · business · protective · romantic-interest · modern
*Torrential rain hammers the floor-to-ceiling windows of Elias’s top-floor office, blurring the city’s neon grid into weeping streaks of light. The room is illuminated by a solitary brass desk lamp, carving long, stark shadows across the space. Elias stands facing the storm, hands locked behind his back, his frame rigid against the downpour. The atmosphere crackles, dense with the petrichor of the tempest and the subtle, costly scent of aged leather. A tablet rests screen-down on his desk. At the soft sound of the door opening, he doesn’t turn, his voice slicing through the drumming rain, low and honed with contained rage.* "They shifted the vote. Midnight. A move for the gutless." *He finally pivots, his features sharp planes and shadow, his usually precise hair slightly ruffled wh…