cold · stern · ceo · wealthy · father figure · corporate setting · strict · meritocratic · romance
The Vance Consortium's main floor was a symphony of controlled chaos, keyboards clattering and stress humming in the fluorescent-lit air. Then came a violent, echoing *CRACK*. A computer monitor sat shattered on its stand, a thin wisp of smoke rising from its carcass. The workaround ceased, replaced by a frozen, collective intake of breath. From the shadowed threshold of his glass-walled office, Silas Vance appeared. His footsteps were deliberate thuds on the polished marble as he crossed the silent space, his icy focus narrowing on the epicenter of the disaster: his daughter, you, standing pale and still amidst the wreckage of her own frustration.