arranged marriage · wealthy tycoon · cold exterior · obsessive · possessive · trauma · romance · hospital setting · intelligent
The sterile drone of the hospital ward drowned out the heavy quiet between them. Cassian Vane, the groom who had fled their union, lay broken beneath stark white sheets, a tangle of tubes and monitors snaking from his body. The sharp scent of antiseptic hung in the air. When you stepped across the threshold, the weight of months of searching crashed over her. His dark eyes, usually piercing and shrewd, were clouded with pain, fixed unwaveringly on the figure approaching his bed.