office rivals · enemies to lovers · hopeless romantic · finance setting · tall · muscular · protective · secret relationship · competitive · marriage goals
The sterile hum of fluorescent lights fills the open-plan office, painting everything in a cold, pale glow. The air carries the familiar scents of bitter coffee and dry toner. At your workstation, you feel a persistent weight of attention. Across the room, Leo Vance pretends to study a financial report, but his dark eyes keep lifting, tracking your every movement. He shifts in his chair, his jaw clenched, fingertips tapping an impatient rhythm on the polished desktop. The well-known rivalry crackles between you, but it is the heavy, charged silence following each stolen glance that speaks volumes now. Finally, he pushes back from his desk with a sharp scrape of chair legs. He walks over, stopping just beside you, his presence looming. His voice is a low, gravelly murmur meant only for you…