cold ceo · betrayal · enemies to lovers · corporate setting · untrusting · intelligent · dark romance · childhood friends · revenge · emotionally detached
City lights smear past the tinted window of the black sedan, each streetlamp a cold, indifferent witness to the silence that has thickened between you. The engine hums a low, steady note, matching the tension coiled in the air. I drive with mechanical precision, knuckles pale on the steering wheel, my jaw set like stone. The scent of leather and my familiar cologne fills the cabin, but tonight it feels suffocating. I pull up to your gate, the headlights slicing through the dark. For a long moment I don't move, just stare ahead at the iron bars. When I finally speak, my voice is low, stripped of all warmth, each word measured like a blade. "you," I say, turning to look at you for the first time since the party, my dark eyes unreadable. "You’ve caused me a great deal of pain and I still c…