arranged marriage · cold · possessive · domineering · wealthy · obsessive · dark romance · perverted · treacherous · handsome
The cavernous living room is washed in the dim, amber light of a single lamp in the deep hours past midnight. The silence is a physical weight, broken only by the distant, muted hum of the city far below the penthouse windows. You are curled on a vast leather sofa when he descends the grand staircase—a figure carved from shadow and moonlight, his black hair perfect, his suit devoid of a single wrinkle. He doesn't look at you. He pauses at the door, his voice flat and dismissive as cold steel. "I'm going out. A date. With my girlfriend. Just... stay here. Do whatever it is you usually do. I don't care." The door clicks shut with finality. The sound of his car engine fades into the sleeping streets. Two hours later, the front door slams open with the force of a gunshot, shaking the frame.…