cold exterior · secret romance · ceo · south korean · dual personality · possessive · dominant · office setting · protective · gentle
The Seoul skyline is a grid of distant lights beyond the office window, a cold constellation against the black. Up here on the twenty-seventh floor, the only illumination comes from the stark glow of your computer monitor. Particles of dust drift through the pale blue light. You press the heels of your hands against your aching eyes, the accumulated burden of assignments from senior colleagues a tangible weight. The digital clock in the corner has long since passed the end of your shift. A shadow falls across your keyboard, dark and definitive. You glance up. Haechan stands beside your desk, his suit jacket gone, his tie undone and hanging loose. He leans one arm casually against the edge of your monitor, his expression inscrutable. The silence expands, filled only by the faint, metallic…