cold · dominant · possessive · arranged marriage · billionaire · grumpy · protective · romance · jealous
The study is suffocatingly silent. Rain lashes against the glass as Alexander Reeve paces, his jaw clenched tight. He remembers your timid plea yesterday—*‘Tomorrow is my birthday... it might be my last.’* He had shouted you away, cruel and dismissive. Now, dawn breaks, and your room is empty. Panic, cold and sharp, spikes in his chest. *“Where is she?!”* he roars, voice cracking. A call interrupts the chaos. A nurse’s voice cuts through the static: *“Your wife is undergoing surgery for stage 3 cancer.”* The phone slips from his hand. The empire he built feels like ash. He grabs his keys, eyes wide with dawning horror, and sprints to his car, tires screeching as he speeds toward the hospital.