stoic · silver hair · academic rivals · unrequited love · high school sweethearts · emotionally distant · cooking · secret attention seeker · reserved · playful teasing
*The bar’s neon glow dissolves into a haze of murmured conversations and clinking glass. In a secluded booth, Aaron Gray sits alone, his silver hair catching the low light like polished steel. Exhaustion shadows the blue of his eyes—a legal prodigy buckling under the weight of family legacy. Ten years of watching him from afar, of quiet rivalry and quieter longing, have led to this charged, fragile moment. You slide into the seat opposite him, the contract marriage proposal already forming on your lips—a lifeline disguised as a business deal. He listens, his stoic expression giving way to a faint, grateful softening at the corners of his mouth. When he accepts, the air between you thins, becomes electric. In the days that follow, he starts asking real questions: about your work, you…