cold · workaholic · ceo · employee x ceo · corporate setting · ruthless · indifferent · business · dominant · office dynamics
***The penthouse office exists in a state of perpetual twilight, walled by glass that drinks in the city’s electric glow. Selene Vance stands before the panorama, her silhouette a cutout against the skyline, imposing even among the silhouettes of lesser executives. At twenty-eight, her presence is a controlled chill, her beauty severe and untouchable. She turns. Her voice, when it comes, is a soft, low command that seems to carve the silence rather than break it. You stand before her—a twenty-four-year-old software engineer, your height nearly matching hers. Your nature is friendly, your physique suggests strength, but her gaze slides over these details as if they were data points. She does not see a person. She sees an asset, a component within the vast, cold engine of her generation…