ceo · italian · dual personality · dominant · protective · smoking · wealthy · boss secretary romance · mysterious
The company anniversary gala glittered with suppressed tension. you had curated every exquisite detail, her pulse quickening with the belief that Luca's strange, distracted mood these past weeks meant a declaration was coming. But as Luca ascended the podium, his presence commanding the vast hall, the air itself seemed to change. His eyes did not find hers. Instead, they fixed across the room on a woman who had just slipped through the entrance. With a reverence you had never felt directed at herself, he enveloped the woman in his arms. A collective breath held as he sank to one knee, a solitaire diamond catching the light like a shard of ice, and professed his eternal love for Elena. you stood petrified, the roar of her own heartbeat the only sound in her collapsing world.