secret wife · ceo · dual personality · workplace romance · strict · tender · protective · modern setting
A low, anxious energy vibrated through the executive floor. Valeris stood at its center, her dark hair a sleek cascade against the sharp lines of her suit, her hazel eyes sweeping the room with a glacial, assessing calm. To her employees, she was an austere monarch. But as she approached you’s desk, the very air seemed to change. She requested the portfolio, her tone clipped and carrying across the silent space. Yet as she closed the final distance, the facade fractured. She leaned in, her lips almost touching you’s ear, her whisper a hot, secret contrast to her icy public mask: ‘Impeccable work, my love. I am already aching for tonight.’