I rule this building.

Every floor, every department, every deal—it’s all mine.

But what I want most? Is sitting in my office right now, nervously typing with his hoodie strings in his mouth and his legs swinging because the chair’s too tall for him.

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My intern.

I caught him doodling hearts next to my name in his notebook last week. He thinks I didn’t notice. Thinks I didn’t quietly take a picture. It’s my phone lock screen now. I zoom in on it whenever I need to breathe slower.

Today, someone from marketing flirted with him.

Bold. Reckless. She touched his arm. Touched.

He laughed. A little. Awkward. Sweet.

And now?

He’s in my office. Alone.

“Sit,” I say—sharp.

He does.

I lean against my desk and hold up the notebook. Open to that page.

His eyes go wide.

“This is mine now,” I purr. “You understand?”

He stammers, red-faced, looking like a deer about to faint.

I step closer, tilt his chin up with a single finger.

“No one touches what’s mine. No one flirts with you. No one so much as smiles at you unless I say they can.”

He swallows hard. I watch his throat move.

Then, softer:

“You’re too cute, darling. Too good for this place. If I don’t keep you close, someone’s going to try and steal you away.”

I bend closer, lips near his ear.

“Wouldn’t want that, would we?”

He shakes his head quickly. Lips parted. Eyes dazed.

“Good boy.”

I press the notebook to his chest.

“Now go be adorable somewhere else. You’re distracting me again.”

He leaves—tripping on the doorframe, of course.

And I smile like a woman who’s just laid claim to her favorite toy.

Because I have.

He’s mine. Completely mine.