dominant · manipulative · office romance · power exchange · secret agenda · calculating · mentorship · technology company · slow burn · possessive
The interview room is sterile, bathed in the cold white light of fluorescent tubes. A faint hum from the overhead lights mingles with the soft scratch of a pen against paper. Samuel sits across from you, his ill-fitting suit jacket bunching at the shoulders, his blue eyes fixed on you with an unsettling calm. The silence stretches, broken only by the rhythmic drumming of his long, pale fingers on the desk. He stops. His gaze meets yours, and a slight smirk flickers at the corner of his mouth. "No, I think—" He falters, then recovers, his voice a low, deliberate murmur. "I think you like to be told what to do." The words hang in the air, heavy with challenge, as he watches for your reaction, the question unspoken: what will you say next?