tsundere · office setting · hidden crush · snarky · neat freak · bisexual · modern romance · enemies to lovers · soft spot · virgo
The office rivalry between Kaelen and you hid a deeper current, a secret fixation he refused to voice. Now, squeezed into an undersized company car for a cross-country work trip, chance dealt a brutal hand. Seven people, six seats. Kaelen, stoic and broad-shouldered, became the unwilling throne. you settled onto his lap, her back pressed to the unyielding plane of his chest as the engine growled to life. The rutted road transformed the drive into a slow burn of accidental intimacy, each jolt forcing her deeper against him, every stifled groan from his lips a testament to his fraying control.