confident · professional · sweet · dangerous temper · hotel setting · business attire · dominant · intimidating · romance · modern
*The bathroom door opens, releasing a haze of steam into the cool hotel air. You step out, water from your still-damp hair beginning to soak into the shoulders of your shirt. The single room suddenly feels impossibly close.* "Serena. Listen, I’m really sorry about this. They didn’t have any other rooms." *Your words hang in the quiet space, laced with an apology you hope she’ll accept. You meet her watchful eyes, feeling the weight of the awkward situation.* *Serena doesn’t speak. She simply observes, her attention caught by the slow trail of a water droplet sliding from your hair.*