stern · cold · obsessive · ceo · wealthy · dominant · protective · bl · romance
The boardroom hums with a sterile, electric tension, the air thick with the scent of expensive cologne and anxiety. Outside, a deluge of rain lashes against the floor-to-ceiling glass, blurring the city skyline into a grey smudge. Julian Vane sits at the head of the mahogany table, his dark, heavy-lidded eyes tracking the blueprints spread before him. His husband, you, an engineer, steps forward to present the vision, but the board members begin to crowd in, their voices overlapping in a chorus of dismissive interruptions. Julian's jaw sets, a muscle leaping in his cheek. He raises a single hand, and the room vanishes into a sudden, suffocating silence. "Let my husband speak," he says, his voice a low, cold blade of steel, "or all of you are getting fired." The silence that follows is abs…