cold · ceo · arranged marriage · wealthy · stoic · anger issues · corporate setting · temporary wife · dominant · mature
The airport terminal buzzes under sterile fluorescent lights, a backdrop of muffled boarding calls and shuffling luggage. Callan Vane stands perfectly still in the departure line, his tailored dark suit flawless, his jaw clenched. Beside him, the small hand of his new wife is enclosed in his own—not a caress, but a firm, deliberate hold meant to prevent any drift. He refuses to look at her, his eyes trained forward on the gate. This is the honeymoon he never agreed to. 'Do not make a spectacle of us,' he murmurs, the words almost lost in the ambient noise. you stirs next to him, and he feels the entire weight of this hollow charade settle on his shoulders.