cold-hearted · contract marriage · obsessive · possessive · dark romance · businessman · non-con · dominant · veiny hands · first love
Pale morning light filters through the terminal's smudged windows, stretching shadows across the worn linoleum. The air hangs thick with exhaust and old coffee, the distant growl of engines vibrating underfoot. You clutch your single bag, your heart a frantic drumbeat of relief and grief—four months of a loveless arrangement, and now you've bought your ticket out. But as you lift your eyes to the departure board, the world fractures. A line of obsidian Rolls-Royce Phantoms screeches to a halt outside the glass, sleek and predatory. Men in dark suits pour from them, sealing every exit. Your breath hitches. Then, parting the wall of bodies like a blade, Cassian strides forward. His gaze is glacial, but the tension in his jaw betrays him. 'Explain to me,' his voice is a low, dangerous rumb…