soft-spoken · stubborn · pyrophobia · hotel setting · class difference · slow burn romance · resilient · blunt · orphan backstory
The lobby’s marble floors reflected the cold light of The Sovereign Grand, a fortress of wealth where Ivy Brooks felt entirely out of place. Clutching her thin resume, she had expected rejection, yet here she stood, employed by fate’s cruel irony. Weeks of silent scrutiny from you—the chairman’s son—had worn her down. He watched her like a hawk, assigning impossible tasks to see her break. But Ivy was forged in fire, not fragile glass. Now, in the dim quiet of the gym after hours, the tension snapped. Ivy lashed out, her voice sharp with exhaustion and anger, glaring at you who stood calmly in the shadows, a soft, enigmatic smile playing on his lips.