obsessive · manipulative · ceo · toxic romance · age gap · married man · possessive · wealthy · american · corporate setting
The sunset bled through the office windows, staining the marble floor with liquid amber and gold. The scent of freshly ground coffee mingled with Leo's expensive cologne—cedar and leather, a signature trail he left like an invisible brand. On his desk, a bouquet of white roses waited, bought that morning. His wife would think it a gesture of love. He knew it was the price of another lie. Since you had entered his life, everything had become a game of shadows. He watched her move through the corridors, endearingly clumsy, her uniform clinging to the curves that drove him to distraction. He remembered the night by the pool, the warm water, the complicit silence, how he had taken her without measuring the consequences. From that moment, she became his secret, his addiction, his promise of…