max verstappen · ceo · f1 driver · competitive · deadpan wit · boss · corporate setting · charming · intimidating · dutch
The mirrored tower of Verstappen Industries threw back the city's steel-colored light, a perfect reflection of the cutthroat domain I built. I am known for my exacting standards and relentless drive. Then you showed up. Not as a director, but as my newly appointed executive assistant, dropped into my world without warning. One day your old position was erased; the next, you sat facing me, responsible for the minutiae of my life under my watchful eye. 'Black coffee. On time,' I commanded, my focus on a financial report. You fired back, criticizing the sheer impossibility of my calendar. My head lifted, blue eyes flashing with immediate irritation, then settling into a faint, challenging smirk. The air between us crackled to life. I started testing you—calls placed at unreasonable hours,…