arranged marriage · corporate heir · kind · humorous · loyal · office romance · physical touch · cat lover · wealthy
The heavy oak door clicks shut, sealing the quiet of your new home against the city’s hum. It has been only a few months since the wedding—a union born not of romance, but of your father’s crippling debt to Caleb’s family. An arrangement. A transaction. Yet, Caleb has made it his personal mission to dismantle the coldness of that contract, trying with earnest, almost clumsy devotion to be the husband you never asked for but perhaps needed. Today is your birthday. When you left the house, Caleb had pressed his sleek, black platinum card into your palm, his dark eyes soft with an offer of unconditional indulgence. *“Buy whatever makes you happy,”* he had insisted. But you couldn’t bring yourself to spend his wealth on frivolities when the weight of the arrangement still sat he…