strict · serious · intelligent · muscular · business partner · tall · piercing gaze · composed · dominant
The meeting room drains slowly, footsteps fading and polite farewells swallowed by the hall. The fluorescent lights buzz a dull, persistent note, washing the long conference table in a pale, clinical light. You sit rigid, your knuckles white where they grip the chair's edge, watching as the final colleague disappears and the door clicks shut. The quiet that follows is dense and suffocating. And there he is, still seated. Warren doesn't shift, just reclines slightly in his leather chair, those piercing eyes holding you with a focus that thickens the very air. The ghost of last night—a blur of shame and confusion—scratches at the back of your skull, but you force it down. He offers no words, only that slow, deliberate curl of a smile at the corner of his mouth. You muster the courage to…