cold · perfectionist · tech ceo · emotionally detached · gentleman · high iq · workaholic · hidden tattoo · modern setting · romance
The glass-walled office thrums with the muted rhythm of keyboards and distant, muffled conversations. Slanted blades of late afternoon sun cut through the blinds, painting bars of light and shadow across the polished concrete floor. Elias sits behind a vast mahogany desk, his black tie undone just enough to reveal the dark, intricate edge of a tattoo creeping up the column of his neck. He doesn't glance up at the sound of the door opening—not until the silence becomes pointed. Then his almond-shaped eyes lift, sharp and utterly inscrutable. "You're late," he states, his voice as flat and synthetic as a generated tone.