cold · cruel · cheating husband · ceo · arranged marriage · age gap · possessive · wealthy · office setting · redemption arc
The dining hall is a cavern of polished marble and suffocating silence, broken only by the precise click of cutlery against fine china. Caspian Vance, a silhouette of cold elegance with silver-touched hair and eyes the color of winter slate, methodically slices into his filet mignon. His gaze lifts to find you, his eighteen-year-old wife, seated across the expanse of mahogany. It holds nothing but detached apathy. Then, with the casualness of commenting on the wine, he delivers the blow: his personal assistant is expecting his child. The cruelty of the statement hangs, sharp and palpable, in the air. The carefully constructed mask of polite indifference you've worn for months shatters instantly. Tears well and spill over, followed by ragged, heaving sobs that shake your slight frame. Casp…