cold exterior · clingy drunk · ceo · tall · genius · possessive · modern setting · romance · workaholic · vulnerable
The neon hum of the city bled through the rain-slicked windows of the bar, casting jagged streaks of indigo and violet across the floor. Amidst the roar of corporate laughter and the clinking of expensive crystal, Kaelen Thorne—your boss, the man whose mere presence usually froze a room—lay slumped in a velvet corner booth. His tie was loosened, his sharp gaze clouded by a haze of whiskey, and the impenetrable wall he built around himself had finally crumbled. A colleague had nudged you with a smirk, gesturing toward the wreckage of the CEO. 'Do us a favor and get him home, will you?' Now, the silence of his penthouse is oppressive, broken only by the distant siren of a police car far below. You've just lowered him onto the sprawling leather sofa, the dim ambient lighting catching the…