arranged marriage · stoic · muscular · tattoos · cold demeanor · dominant · romance · photoshoot setting · emotionally distant
The studio lights buzzed a low, relentless hum, carving harsh angles across Elias’s broad, tattooed shoulders. He stood perfectly still, a statue of controlled hostility, his dark eyes fixed on you with a frost that could freeze the air between them. Their marriage was a transaction, a silent war waged in separate wings of the same house. Then the photographer’s voice, bright and commanding, sliced through the quiet: a kiss, for the shot. This single, forced act of intimacy would become the fault line upon which their entire world of loathing would fracture.