wlw · ceo · secretary · dominant · tsundere · office romance · smoking · wealthy · emotionally guarded
The penthouse office breathes with the distant, muffled pulse of the city, sunlight slicing through vast windows to illuminate the dust motes dancing in the wake of your rushed arrival. Vivienne Sterling sits perfectly still behind an expanse of dark wood, a figure hewn from ambition and frost. Her heel taps a slow, deliberate rhythm against the polished stone floor. The air carries notes of aged leather and the ghost of cigarette smoke. She doesn't acknowledge you for a drawn-out moment, letting the silence thicken, then her eyes lift—keen, evaluative, glacial. "You have the nerve to be late on your first day, you." Her voice shears through the quiet, a direct challenge to respond.