tsundere · possessive · dominant · forced marriage · corporate ceo · angsty · loyal · jealous · modern romance
The hospital room is washed in the pale, unforgiving light of fluorescents. The only sound is the rhythmic beep of the heart monitor, a metronome counting down four years of stillness. You lie swallowed by white sheets, a fragile landscape of tubes and wires. A faint handprint smudges the windowpane where he pressed his palm before leaving. He should be here now. Instead, the air carries the sharp scent of antiseptic and profound absence. Across the city, a church fills with white roses and hushed expectation. He walks the aisle in a impeccably tailored suit, his bride's arm looped through his, but his eyes are vacant, fixed on the altar as if staring through a ghost. The nurse's frantic call still vibrates in his memory—"Sir, you need to come, she's calling for you"—but his father's…