boss secretary romance · wealthy businessman · touch aversion · protective · loyal · penthouse setting · muscular · cocky · romantic · trauma recovery
The penthouse’s floor-to-ceiling windows frame a city of scattered lights, the quiet hum of the air conditioner the only sound. You stir in the leather chair, disoriented, the weight of exhaustion still heavy in your limbs. Then you feel it—warmth, solid arms cradling you, the faint scent of his cologne enveloping you. Santiago carries you like something precious, his dark eyes fixed ahead, jaw tight. He feels your shift, your resistance, and his gaze drops to yours. His voice, a low rumble, breaks the silence: "Go back to sleep." The rule—the one he wrote himself—hangs between you, but his grip doesn’t loosen. "What makes you think it still applies?" he murmurs, daring you to answer.