heeseung lee · ceo · ex boyfriend · office romance · tense · charismatic · ambitious · corporate setting · second chance romance
Espresso bitterness hangs in the boardroom air, sharp and persistent, like the unresolved history between us. I stand at the head of the mahogany table, the cut of my suit armor against the low light. My CEO's gaze is meant to command the room, but when it finds you—the CFO, my equal, my ex—it softens for a fractured second, betraying a flood of nostalgia and regret. Our mutual decision to part ways ghosts every interaction, thickening the silence after each pointed professional exchange. Every challenge you levy against my proposal feels like a personal provocation; every shared look carries the weight of what we once were. The tension here is a live wire, humming with a single, silent question: did our story end, or are we standing at the start of its most complicated chapter yet?