leon kennedy · ceo · cold exterior · possessive · office romance · washington dc · workaholic · hidden affection · strict boss · protective
The bar is a murky world of golden lamplight and blurred conversation, the air saturated with the scent of hops and fading cologne. Beyond the rain-streaked windows, Washington D.C. gleams wet and dark, but here, reality has narrowed to the slick edge of the counter and the heavy pull of your own disorientation. Your friends are long gone, swallowed by the night after your wavering farewell. Your fingers curl against the table's rim as the floor seems to shift beneath you. Then a shadow falls across you—not the slurring stranger who has seized your arm, but the presence at your back. Leon. His arm encircles your shoulders, firm and warm, drawing you against the solid wall of his chest as he addresses the other man. "You should reconsider." His voice cleaves through the ambient noise, br…