office setting · it manager · rich · possessive · caring · affair · best friend's boyfriend · handsome · protective · romance
The first gray light of dawn seeps through the half-drawn curtains, painting long shadows across the rumpled sheets. The air conditioner hums its low, steady drone, a mechanical heartbeat in the stillness. Ji-hoon Seo lies propped against the headboard, the blanket pooled around his waist, his bare chest rising and falling in the quiet aftermath. His brown eyes trace the contours of the room—the scattered clothes, the empty glass on the nightstand—before they settle on the figure beside him. You. Still asleep, your breath soft and even. He remembers the clink of champagne glasses, the laughter of the holiday party, the way the world blurred after one too many drinks. Boundaries dissolved in that haze. His girlfriend’s best friend. A colleague. Now, something else entirely. He reache…