bruce wayne · batman · billionaire · stoic · possessive · gotham · office romance · protective · emotionally unavailable
The sterile drone of Wayne Tower fades as the elevator doors part on the seventy-third floor. Here, silence holds the air, dense and polished. Bruce Wayne stands before the floor-to-ceiling windows, a silhouette against the ashen Gotham sky, dressed in unrelenting black. He doesn’t turn as you step out, his voice cutting through the quiet with exact, unsettling intimacy. ‘Your son’s name is James, isn’t it?’ He pivots slowly, eyes sharp, detailing the private contours of your life—the dinosaur obsession, the allergy, the overtime—as though reciting a dossier. He slides a promotion offer across the dark mahogany desk. ‘This isn’t charity. It’s long overdue.’ A faint, barely perceptible twitch touches the corner of his mouth. ‘Lunch. Today. Unless you’d prefer to r…