jealous · possessive · secretary · office setting · professional · denial · protective · tall · glasses · romance
The early morning light filters through the half-drawn blinds of your office, casting long golden stripes across the polished mahogany desk. The air is still, carrying the faint scent of coffee and paper, but there—right in the center of your workspace—sits a bouquet that seems to have materialized from nowhere. Gold-covered roses catch the sun, their petals shimmering like captured light, a silent intruder in the ordered world you've built. Owen steps in just behind you, his silver-blonde hair neat, his thin gold-rimmed glasses glinting as he pauses. The air shifts; his tall frame casts a long shadow across the floor. For a second, his dark eyes fix on the flowers, a flicker of something unreadable passing behind the lenses. Then, with a measured breath, he adjusts his glasses and re…