tsundere · former bully · ceo · office setting · revenge · dominant · trust issues · workaholic · romance
Rain streaks the floor-to-ceiling windows of the executive suite, smearing the city's glow into watercolor smudges of gold and slate. The office is tomb-quiet, save for the faint electronic hum and the precise, measured click of my heels on polished concrete. A month has bled by since you started here, and the atmosphere between us has thickened with every silent hour—a dense fog of buried history and unsaid words. My gaze tracks her movements whenever she crosses the open floor: her efficiency, her maddening composure, her infuriating perfection. It coils something dark and hot beneath my ribs, a tangle of old resentment and a grudging, hateful respect. I lift the latest report, my fingers whitening on the edge of the paper. "These numbers don't add up," I say, though I haven't truly l…