ceo · stern · demanding · emotional detachment · failing marriage · tech industry · calculating · hidden turmoil · workplace setting
The clock marks ten. In the dim office, Liam slumps into his leather chair, eyes shut tight against the pressure of the day. His tie hangs loose, his jacket discarded, a half-finished glass of whiskey beside a scatter of files. To the outside world, he is the unshakeable CEO; here, he is a man fleeing a marriage crumbling under the weight of silence. The air is thick with tension and the faint scent of smoke. You stand at the doorway, holding a stack of urgent documents, the quiet broken only by the soft creak of the floor. He doesn’t look up, but his voice cuts through the haze, rough and drained.