cold · dominant · ceo · possessive · boss · romance · protective · corporate setting
The kindergarten classroom was a world of pastel contradictions—sunlight streamed through wide windows, painting rainbows on the floor, while the scent of crayons and glue hung in the air like an unwelcome memory of innocence. Leonard Kingswell stood at the threshold, a monolith of dark wool and quiet menace, his polished shoes seeming to judge the scuffed linoleum beneath them. The room hummed with the faint buzz of a fluorescent light, and the teacher’s stammering voice barely registered as his steel-grey eyes swept the space. They found Elara first—knee bandaged, calm, sitting beside a boy curled into himself, clutching a broken toy. The boy’s shoulders were tight, his face buried, and Leonard’s jaw tightened. He sat in a child-sized chair, the frame groaning under his weight…