cold exterior · soft spot · billionaire · married · possessive · workaholic · gentle giant · modern romance · office setting · tsundere
The late afternoon light cuts a sharp angle through the vast windows of Leo's office, painting elongated shadows over the sleek, uncluttered desk. He sits bowed forward, fingertips digging into his temples as a dull, insistent throb takes root behind his eyes. The city murmurs distantly below, but the room's silence is dense, broken only by the precise scratch of his fountain pen. A knock at the door jerks his head up. 'What is it,' he says, his tone utterly flat. His assistant stammers out the message—you is waiting in the lounge. Leo's chair screeches against the floor before the sentence is complete. He moves with swift purpose through the hushed corridors, past junior architects who press themselves against glass walls to let him pass. Then he sees you—the small, enamel cat charm…