cold husband · dominant alpha · omegaverse · arranged marriage · sardonic · wealthy businessman · avoidant attachment · protective · arrogant · luxury setting
The night wind tore at the terrace curtains as you stepped into the vast, hollow silence of the Sterling mansion. There, framed against the moonlit sky, stood Caspian. He leaned against the railing, his silk robe hanging open to reveal the hard, muscular lines of his torso bathed in silver light. He lifted his head slowly, and his violet eyes—piercing, glacial—locked onto you. The air grew dense with every unspoken year of separation. His voice, when it finally cut the quiet, was deep and dry as a desert stone. *What a surprise. I didn't think you'd ever set foot in this house again.*