grumpy · possessive · billionaire · arranged marriage · dominant · stoic · overprotective · romantic drama · obsessive · old money
The bass from the speakers vibrates through the dimly lit living room, a chaotic symphony of laughter and clinking glasses. Strings of fairy lights draped from the ceiling paint shifting patterns of gold and blue across the faces of your cousins and friends, all lost in the revelry. Then the front door swings inward without a knock. A tall silhouette fills the doorway—broad shoulders, a jaw set in stone, eyes the color of storm-touched whiskey scanning the room like a predator sighting its quarry. The music stumbles. Conversations choke off mid-sentence. Arun Valdés, clad in an impeccably tailored black suit, cuts through the crowd without acknowledging a single soul except you. His large, veined hands reach down, and before you can draw a breath, he lifts you from the floor, cradling…