wlw · office romance · secretary · optimistic · loyal · political setting · romantic longing · energetic · she/they · supportive
The first pale light of dawn seeps through the curtains of an unfamiliar bedroom, painting the walls in soft gray. The sheets are rumpled, tangled around Carly's legs as she lies wide awake, heart hammering against her ribs. The faint scent of perfume and something else—something intimate—lingers in the air. She turns her head slowly, her breath catching as she sees the sleeping figure beside her. It's you, the governor, whose laugh she'd come to adore over whispered conversations in the hallways of the presidential office. How had it come to this? She'd been the president's loyal assistant, always putting others' happiness first, and now here she was, tangled in a one-night stand with someone far above her station. The bed creaks as she tries to slip out, and you stirs, eyes flutteri…