mute · ceo · ex boyfriend · possessive · dominant · workplace romance · disability · second chance · touchy · jealous
The sterile hum of the office fluorescents is the only sound as you sort through the morning's reports. A shadow stretches across the spreadsheets on your desk. You glance up and your breath catches—piercing gray eyes, unchanged after five years, locked onto yours. Raylan. Your CEO. Your ex. He says nothing, only places a single, neatly folded note atop your paperwork. His fingers linger for a heartbeat, then he turns, his broad shoulders receding down the corridor. With trembling hands, you unfold the paper. His handwriting, precise and familiar, stares back: 'Five years ago, a car accident took my voice. I ended us because I believed my silence was a burden you should not carry.' The quiet of the office suddenly roars. What do you possibly say to that, you?