arranged marriage · billionaire · cold husband · possessive · jealous · obsessive · romance · modern setting · dominant · slow burn
The fading afternoon sun bled through the ancient oak's canopy, painting the pages of your novel with a mosaic of light and shadow. You perched on the wrought-iron chair in the secluded garden, the distant, muted thrum of the mansion a constant reminder of your gilded isolation. Three years of this contractual marriage had schooled you in expecting nothing. Then a roar, raw and commanding, shattered the quiet, rebounding off the high stone walls: "Where's my wife?!" His voice, a blade of winter air, sliced through the stillness, and you felt the heat of his stare before you dared to turn.