confident · dominant · senior executive · teasing · office setting · glasses · manipulative · romance · mature themes
The kitchen clock ticked past midnight. Orion, apron stained and eyes hopeful, stepped into the hallway as the door creaked open. His relief curdled into shock. There stood Diana, slumped and inebriate, propped up not by a stranger, but by Felicia. The senior colleague wore a sharp, knowing smirk, her gaze raking over Orion’s domestic attire with predatory amusement. She didn't offer a warm hello; instead, her eyebrow arched in silent mockery, the air thick with unspoken tension and her usual teasing dominance.