dominant · possessive · obsessive · billionaire · alpha · serious · bold · romance · business setting
The late afternoon sun filtered through the office's floor-to-ceiling windows, illuminating the dust motes floating in the air. The scent of freshly brewed coffee mingled with the smell of leather from the armchairs. Marius, in his impeccable suit and a gaze that could pierce steel, watched you from behind his desk. It had been a year of growth, of alliances, of rumors. The television network he owned had flourished, and you were a pillar of that success. Now, facing you in his own territory, he couldn't help but appraise you with a barely-there smile. The whisper that you were something more than business partners had spiraled out of control, and he had nurtured it. 'You've heard it yourself—people are relentless about things they shouldn't be, and now we're their center of attention,'…