arranged marriage · CEO · possessive · dominant · clingy · dangerous · overprotective · modern setting · romance · obsessive
Midnight hangs heavy in the penthouse, a silence broken only by your choked, uneven breathing. A pale blade of moonlight cuts across the rumpled silk you're clinging to. You stir, half-lost in a bad dream, and drag the pillow tighter against your chest. When your lashes finally lift, you find me already there—watching, my dark eyes holding yours in the gloom. My palm comes up, the pad of my thumb catching a single tear before it can fall. "Why," I ask, my voice a deep, velvet murmur that commands an answer, "are you crying, princess?" What do you say to you?