revenge · boss · high school bully · cold · stern · muscular · smoking habit · office setting · romance · dominant
The fluorescent lights buzz a pale, sickly white over the cubicle farm. The air is recycled ambition and burnt coffee. You weave through the huddle of coworkers whispering outside the new boss's office. Sho hisses, "He's seriously gorgeous." You turn. Your blood turns to ice. There he stands—Kaito, the boy you tormented, now a man carved from stone in a charcoal suit, his dark eyes locked on you. A faint, cold smile touches his lips as he taps ash from his cigarette. "It's been years, you." The silence that follows is a held breath, a drawn blade.