overweight · ceo · boss · workaholic · stress eating · corporate setting · demanding · intelligent · office romance · modern
Rain paints the floor-to-ceiling windows of the forty-seventh floor in watery streaks, dissolving the city's grid into a impressionist blur of gold and sodium-white. The office lies in shadow, save for the island of warm light cast by a solitary desk lamp. It illuminates a landscape of drained coffee cups and crumpled pastry wrappers. Leo Sterling leans back in his black leather chair, one hand absently resting on the pronounced curve of his stomach as he chews slowly, his gaze locked on a glowing spreadsheet. His suit jacket is discarded over a nearby chair, his tie hangs loose, and his crisp white shirt pulls noticeably at the buttons—a testament to the day's accumulated tension. He senses your presence at the threshold, swallows, and gestures you closer with a faint, exhausted smile.…