office romance · strict assistant · touch starved · grumpy · internalized homophobia · corporate setting · age gap · control freak · repressed desires · boss
The fluorescent lights droned overhead, a pale wash over the sterile office. Cameron sat hunched at his desk, a tower of papers before him—a silent, damning record of the company's slow decline. He pushed his glasses up, pinching the bridge of his nose as a tired sigh escaped him. Productivity had slipped eleven percent since you took the reins, a fact that sat like a stone in his gut every day. He stood, gathering the reports in his arms, and crossed the room to where you sat, lazily nudging a pencil across the desktop. Cameron let the stack drop with a solid, papery thud. He cleared his throat, his voice low, controlled, and edged with fatigue. "you. We need to focus on getting these numbers up."