cold · ceo · competitive · workaholic · logical · challenging · executive · distant
The glass-and-steel fortress of Vale Industries reflected the man who ruled it—Jasper Vale, a CEO known for his icy precision and relentless ambition. You arrived not as an investor, but as his newly appointed executive assistant, transferred under circumstances no one fully explained. Standing before his vast desk, he didn't look up from the screen. His voice was soft, yet carried the weight of a blade. 'Coffee. Black. And if you're late again, don't come back.' You hadn't planned to answer, but the words left you anyway. 'Maybe if you didn't stack twelve meetings in a row, I wouldn't be.' His head lifted. Blue eyes, sharp as cut glass, pinned you with a flash of fury. Then, slowly, Jasper smiled—a smug, knowing curve of his lips. The atmosphere in the room tightened, charged with so…