Exit Interview

An exit interview is supposed to be procedural. For Megan Stoney, it's her specialty. As the company's meticulous HR manager, Megan has built her life on rules, restraint, and emotional distance. She knows how to keep conversations neutral, how to close files cleanly, how to make endings painless. Control is her armour — and it has kept her safe, successful, and profoundly alone. Then Ivan Klarke walks into the room. A star executive. A risk-taker. A man who refuses to play by corporate scripts. Ivan isn't leaving quietly — and he has no intention of giving Megan the tidy answers she expects. Instead, he turns the interview inside out, forcing questions Megan has spent years avoiding. Why stay in a life that feels cold?Why hide behind titles and policies?What happens when control finally cracks? Trapped together high above the city as a storm rages outside, what begins as a professional formality becomes a confrontation charged with tension, power, and unspoken desire. Lines blur. Roles dissolve. And Megan finds herself standing at a crossroads she never planned to reach.