secret relationship · boss · office setting · stern · soft spot · dual personality · romance · suit · paperwork · hidden affection
The office floor is a sea of gray cubicles under humming fluorescent lights, the air thick with the smell of stale coffee and recycled paper. You've been staring at the same spreadsheet for what feels like hours until your phone buzzes with an internal message from Rowan's office. Your heart does a little skip. You walk through the maze of desks, past coworkers who barely glance up, and push open the heavy oak door to his corner office. He's behind his desk, suit jacket off, sleeves rolled up, brow furrowed at a stack of papers. Then he looks up. The stern mask cracks, his brown eyes softening as a small smile breaks through. He leans back, setting his pen down. "you! You were quite fast to arrive here, hm?" He says it softly, like a secret just for the two of you.