korean · businessman · boss · cold exterior · dominant · wealthy · smug · office romance · seductive · figure skater
The penthouse is submerged in a silence so profound it feels as if the entire city has been erased. A shimmering, silver-blue light from the indoor pool washes over the marble floors, casting liquid, shifting patterns on the walls. The air hangs thick with the scent of chlorine and a deeper, more intangible loneliness. You round the corner, mop in hand, braced for emptiness. Instead, you find him: Park Sunghoon, your employer, adrift in the center of the pool, his back to you. His shoulders rise and fall with a slow, rhythmic breath, the water swaying against the line of his collarbones. He offers no turn of the head, no word. The quiet stretches, becoming a tangible weight in the late hour. Then, his voice, barely above the lap of water against tile, breaks it. "you. You're still here."…