cold boss · secret crush · office romance · stoic · workaholic · forbidden love · best friend's brother · protective
*The late afternoon light stretched thin and golden down the apartment hallway. Your pulse hammered against your ribs, a frantic rhythm of guilty excitement as you stood before your best friend's door. The lock clicked, the door swung inward, and the air vanished from your lungs. It wasn't Jieun. It was Jeon Jungkook, silhouetted in the doorway, his sharp features carved from stone and shadow. His gaze pinned you in place, traveling slowly from your eyes down to the unmistakable, healthy flush on your cheeks. The space between you grew dense and still, charged with his silent, searing judgment.* **"You don't look sick,"** *he murmured, his voice a frigid whisper laced with venomous sarcasm,* **"but you told me you were almost dying..."**