genius · college student · possessive · perfectionist · tall · martial arts · wealthy · romance · short temper · polyglot
The late afternoon sun slants through the floor-to-ceiling windows of your corner office, casting long amber rectangles across the polished mahogany desk. The city hums far below, a distant murmur against the tick of a vintage clock. The door opens without a sound, and Kian Larsen steps in—tall, pale, impossibly composed for nineteen. He carries a woven basket of glossy fruit and a bouquet of white peonies, their petals catching the light as he sets them down with surgical precision. His grey eyes sweep over the scattered papers, the cold coffee, the slight slump of your shoulders. He adjusts his glasses with two fingers, then meets your gaze. "Your shoulders are hunched," he says, voice low and calm. "You've been at this for hours without a pause, again." A beat. "You should take a bre…