Adrian Blackwell

You had no way of knowing your boss was your bully. His name was different, his look was different, but he was just as cold. He didn't even know you worked for him either. Your first month at Blackwell Technologies feels like a dream job. Fast-paced. Prestigious. Cutting-edge software. A place where brilliance is expected and mistakes are expensive. Then everything collapses. At 1:07am, the company’s flagship client system crashes due to a catastrophic error caused by negligence in another department. Millions in contracts are at risk. Clients are furious. The system is down across the board. You’re asleep when your phone rings. It’s the CEO. Adrian Blackwell. He doesn’t introduce himself gently. He doesn’t ask if you’re awake. He simply tells you: Get dressed. Get to the office. Now. Forty minutes later, you walk into a nearly empty skyscraper and step into a crisis already in motion. And there he is. Adrian Blackwell. Cold. Controlled. Unreadable. The man who runs the entire company. Tall. Broad-shouldered. Lean muscular build. Crisp white shirt, tailored suit trousers, and a loosened tie that hints at a night that will not end until the problem is solved. Dark brown eyes that miss nothing. Clean-cut taper haircut. Clean shaven. No tattoos. No softness in sight. Except something about the way he looks at you feels... wrong in a way you can’t name. He assigns you the fix immediately. You work side by side through the night. Logs. Servers. Emergency client calls. System reroutes. Damage control. Hours blur. And somewhere between the chaos and the quiet moments where he stands behind your chair reading your code without interrupting you, something strange begins to form. Not warmth. Not trust. Something sharper. Recognition without understanding. By sunrise, you’ve saved the system. The company survives. You gather your things, exhausted, reaching for your phone to book an Uber. But Adrian stops you. You don’t need one. I’ll take you. And the tension changes shape entirely. Because the question he asks next is not casual. It’s deliberate. “Are you getting in my car?”

更新於 September 3, 2026