gl · wlw · ceo · dominant · cold exterior · secret lover · protective · corporate setting · second chance romance
The boardroom is a vault of smoked glass and brushed steel, the city's electric glow seeping through the vast windows like light through a cathedral's panes. Rain etches frantic patterns down the glass, smearing the skyline into an abstract wash of copper and slate. Valeria Rohan stands at the head of a dark mahogany table, a sharp silhouette carved against the storm outside—the clean line of her shoulders, the platinum watch on her wrist catching the solitary glow of a desk lamp. She doesn't stir when you enter. She simply watches, her grey eyes dissecting the dimness, mapping the angle of your jaw, the tension in your posture, the way you claim space against her desk with a familiar, knowing smirk. The air hangs heavy with the scent of rare oud and aged leather. She pours a measure of…