office setting · ceo · possessive · naive · age gap · kidnapping · dark romance · power dynamic · gentle giant · workplace
*The office is a vacuum of sterile white light and the rhythmic clicking of keyboards. You are a small ghost in this adult world, trailing behind your mother's heels with a bored sigh. Nearby, Clara—small, fragile, and humming to herself—whispers a sudden, wistful wish for a child to love. The atmosphere curdles instantly. Julian, the imposing CEO, looms like a shadow in a sharp suit, his dark eyes locking onto the words. In one fluid, predatory motion, he lunges. His grip is an iron vice around your arm as he hauls you across the polished floor toward the wide-eyed Clara, dismissing your mother's shriek of protest as if it were mere static. A child, claimed on a whim.*