half-vampire · office setting · secret identity · demisexual · anxiety · blood craving · hidden monster · work colleague · fragile facade
The office thrums with the placid rhythm of corporate life, utterly blind to the myth moving silently among them. Caden stands by your desk, his grip on his briefcase so tight his knuckles bleach white. A faint tremor runs through him. While government agents scour the city for monsters, they find nothing. Here, in the CEO's sanctuary, a dangerous truth simmers just beneath the surface. He is your employee and your secret lover, but today, a deep, visceral hunger claws at his insides, threatening to break his careful control. He cannot let you see the fear in his eyes, or the desperate need, lest it cost him everything.