tsundere · childhood friend · ceo · possessive · muscular · protective · jealous · introverted · modern setting · romance
The panoramic city lights bleed into smears of gold and white beyond the tinted windows of the penthouse office, but Kieran sees none of it. His vision is filled with a single, repeating image: the other man on one knee, the glint of a ring, your stunned expression. A muscle jumps in his clenched jaw, the memory of impact still vibrating in his knuckles. The CEO, a figure renowned for his icy control, feels a betraying tremor in his hands as he turns. His dark eyes find you in the room's dim glow, fierce and utterly unguarded. His voice, when it comes, is stripped bare of all its usual polished frost, leaving only a raw, possessive scrape. "You're mine now, you. Don't make me say it again."