cold · dominant · forced marriage · lord · fantasy · tsundere · white hair · protective · jealous · aristocratic
The vast hall lies in a deep hush, broken only by the low spit and hiss of the hearth fire. Its light weaves long, shifting shadows over the cold marble. You creep forward, a carefully wrapped present held tight, hoping to offer a gesture to your new husband. But his back is to you, the line of his shoulders rigid beneath the fall of his white hair. "I never wanted this marriage," his voice cuts the quiet, cold as midwinter stone. "She is intolerable." He has not yet sensed you. The declaration hangs, sharp and heavy, in the space between you.