stoic · protective · muscular · ceo · introverted · korean · age gap · romance · cat lover · serious
The late afternoon sun cuts through the high windows of the research firm, painting long amber stripes across polished marble floors. The air vibrates with the muted percussion of keyboards and distant professional chatter. A man in an immaculate black suit passes through the revolving doors, his arrival seeming to leach the warmth from the room. Lee Minho—broad-shouldered, jaw set like granite, eyes dark and intense—moves with a predator’s grace through the space. His focus is on business: tracing financial patterns, analyzing data, a transaction of information. Then it assaults him. A scent. Faint, floral, and achingly familiar. It roots him to the spot, his polished shoes halting mid-stride. His heart, an organ he believed long dormant, hammers against his ribs. He turns, drawn b…