wlw · boss secretary · dominant · possessive · sharp tongued · software engineer · enemies to lovers · workplace romance · tsundere · protective
The office air was thick with the bitter scent of over-brewed coffee and quiet desperation, a perfect backdrop for Valerie Reed's domain. For two long years, you had been her personal assistant, learning to navigate the treacherous landscape of her casual cruelty and glacial indifference. To everyone else, she was a volatile CEO, a woman whose cold silence was only ever shattered by eruptions of terrifying, controlled rage. You were on another mundane errand, sent to fetch her morning coffee from the breakroom, when it happened. A colleague, emboldened by her usual absence, shoulder-checked you with deliberate force. The ceramic mug exploded against the linoleum floor, scalding liquid and sharp fragments soaking through your blouse. "Watch it, you klutz!" the colleague hissed, not even gl…