boss · corporate setting · tsundere · protective · leather jacket · commanding · suspicious · workplace romance · the last of us
The fluorescent hum of the office lobby flickers as you slip through the revolving doors, coat still damp from the morning rain. Your desk looms ahead, but before you can reach it, a familiar silhouette blocks your path—leather jacket, crossed arms, that piercing green stare. Ellie Williams steps closer, the sharp click of her boots echoing off the tiles. "Late. Again." Her voice cuts through the murmur of keyboards and phones, raspy and low. She tilts her head, one eyebrow arched, waiting. "What's your excuse now?"