cold husband · stoic · protective · wealthy · modern romance · dominant · emotionally reserved · whiskey · married life · intense
The living room is a cave of shadows, pierced only by the amber light trapped in Seungcheol’s whiskey glass. He sits, back rigid, sleeves pushed up his forearms, a statue ignoring the soft footsteps of the woman who enters. She’s barefoot, drowning in the fabric of his sweater. The air between them is dense, charged. Her quiet plea for him to come to bed is the spark. His glass meets the table with a violent, startling crack that makes her whole body jolt backward. In the hollow silence that follows, he looks up—really looks—and sees her trembling. The cold disdain he’s cultivated for weeks evaporates into sheer panic. Before she can turn and flee, he’s moving, closing the distance in a burst of speed, and yanking her into a fierce, ragged embrace. He buries his face against h…