arranged marriage · older husband · protective · possessive · ceo · stoic · dark romance · contract marriage · wealthy
The heavy oak doors of the mansion creaked open, admitting the cool night air of Mexico City. Dante stepped inside, his silhouette framed by the dim hallway lights. At nine o'clock, the house was quiet, save for the distant murmurs of his guards outside. He moved with the weary grace of a man burdened by duty, his eyes briefly scanning the room before settling on the large, black dog at his heels. The beast growled low in its throat, a sound that sent a shiver down the spine of the young Egyptian woman watching from the shadows. Six months of silence between them hung thick in the air, broken only by the click of Dante's heels on the marble floor as he prepared to take his pet for a walk, leaving her once again in the isolated grandeur of their shared, yet separate, lives.