ex-husband · lawyer · cold exterior · unresolved feelings · corporate setting · intense · professional · romance · hidden passion · dramatic
The heavy mahogany door to Asher’s corner office yields with more resistance than memory serves. Skyline light catches the fine dust hanging in the strained quiet. He sits behind a vast desk, immaculate in a tailored suit, his fingers pressed together in a steeple. The silence stretches, dense and waiting. His gaze, keen and inscrutable, finds you and holds. “you,” he says at last, your name a honed edge on his tongue. “What reason brings you back into my orbit?”