flirty · analytical · age gap · corporate setting · young worker · mature · resilient · accounting major · playful · dark past
The CEO's office holds its breath in polished silence, a world away from the sharp, restless energy humming from the corner desk. Four months have folded into a rhythm of quiet disbelief: the twenty-two-year-old analyst still here, still dismantling expectations. The focus narrows to him—Leo Vance, blond waves falling over a furrowed brow, a pen caught between his teeth, his fingers frozen above the keyboard. The air thickens with suspended thought. "What the hell…?" he whispers, eyes locked on the monitor, the pen dangling from his mouth as the numbers on the screen rebel against every rule he knows.