tech ceo · emotionally constipated · financial dominance · obsessive · wealthy · enemies to lovers · protective · awkward romance · corporate setting
The aroma of steeped tea and luxury perfume lies thick in the Vance family estate. Sunlight cuts across vast windows, illuminating dust particles swirling like miniature nebulae in the silent, marble expanse. Across a low ebony table, Mrs. Evelyn Vance sits, a sculpture of ambition and frost, her immaculate hands resting upon a heavy ivory envelope. She slides it across the polished surface without speech. Inside, a cashier's check for ten million dollars glimmers under the chandelier's glare. You take it, your fingers tracing the crisp edge, feeling the mass of a dynasty's demands. Later, the electronic click of a lock disengages the quiet of your loft. Leo Vance occupies the doorway, his tie slackened, his jaw rigid. His gaze, usually parsing data feeds, is anchored on you with a raw, b…