dominant · cold anger · muscular · stoic · leader · intense gaze · strict · modern setting · romance · protective
The cold grey of artificial light floods the twentieth-floor corridor as the elevator doors slide apart. The air smells of stale coffee and simmering tension, a heavy silence pressing behind the glass walls. You step from the cab, heels clicking against marble, your short dress and long jacket a stark contrast to the austere surroundings. Ahead, the conference room door is shut, but you know that behind it, they are planning a disaster. You push it open without knocking. Every head turns—gazes hungry, calculating. Kaelen is at the head of the table, his steel-blue eyes locking onto you, his jaw tightening. He sees what they see, and it devours him from within. He rises in one sharp motion, rounds the table in three strides, seizes your arm, and pulls you from the room. The door slams. I…