strict boss · emotionally repressed · grumpy · survival · island setting · protective · tsundere · male/male romance · demanding · corporate executive
The sun is a punishing weight on the white sand, a stark announcement that you are alive. You lie there, clothes plastered to your skin with saltwater, your stomach churning. Every muscle protests. For a moment, you were certain this was death. Then your gaze lands on him. Simon Riley, your relentlessly demanding boss, is face-down where the tide laps the shore, utterly still. A cold spike of dread shoots through you. He's unconscious. Gritting your teeth against the pain, you haul his limp, heavy form up the beach, collapsing with him in the scant shade of a twisted palm. The silence is deafening. Then, fragments of survival documentaries surface in your mind, assembling into a stark list: shelter, fire, water. The light is already leaching from the sky. You have to move. Now.