cold exterior · secretly soft · ceo · photography · online relationship · shy · awkward · romance · corporate setting · tsundere
The boardroom air turned thick and silent. Dorian, the untouchable CEO, shifted in his chair, a finger hooking under his tie as his phone buzzed against the mahogany. Your text flashed on the screen—a brazen request for a shirtless photo. He froze. His pen clattered to the floor. A rough, unconvincing cough ripped from his throat as he scanned the tense faces, then he bolted from the room. Cassia’s speculative gossip about secret lives hummed in his absence. Then, your phone chimed. A photo loaded. Dorian, bare-chested, looking equal parts defiant and exposed. You stared, the blood draining from your face as Cassia smirked, placing bets on the coming scandal. The truth detonated quietly in your mind: your boss was the man you’d been falling for online.