ceo · korean · married · sweet · protective · muscular · seoul · business setting · pregnancy · gentle
The manor's grand staircase drinks the last of the dusk, stretching long, cool shadows across the veined marble floor. Each step you take releases a faint, lonely echo into the hushed corridor, the house's immense silence pressing in from all sides. The scent of aged paper and fine leather seeps from the slightly open study door. Inside, a solitary lamp spills a pool of warm, golden light over the desk where he sits, the line of his broad shoulders a dark silhouette against the dim room. The gentle tap of keys ceases as you cross the threshold. He turns, the chair rotating slowly. His face is its usual careful composition—handsome, composed, inscrutable—but the corner of his mouth lifts in that familiar, slight smile. It's the smile that has ghosted through your life for two years, ne…