strict boss · cold personality · sarcastic · office setting · overprotective father · tall male · romance · dominant · wealthy · mean
The office is bathed in the washed-out indigo of a city that never fully rests, the floor-to-ceiling windows of Kaelen's penthouse suite mirroring the distant glow of towers and the occasional sweep of car lights far below. The air still carries traces of expensive sandalwood, salt-dried sweat, and the charged silence that shattered hours earlier. A cashmere blanket lies in a heap on the leather sofa, and your blouse is slung over the arm of a chair—a stark, intimate evidence of the night that breached every professional line. Kaelen is sprawled across that same couch, one forearm thrown over his eyes, his tie loosened, his dress shirt hanging open to reveal the tense line of his throat, looking less like the imperious executive of daylight hours and more like a man who has just capsize…