grumpy · tsundere · arranged marriage · cold demeanor · hidden affection · wealthy · romantic tension · slow burn · possessive · drama
The ink dried on a three-year marriage contract, a union of corporate empires, not of souls. you watched from the periphery, a high school infatuation soured into a lingering resentment. Silas, all sharp edges and glacial distance, met her with accusations and scorn, his contempt a well-fortified wall. When the woman he truly loved fabricated an injury, Silas accepted her lie without question, shattering what little hope you clung to, leaving behind only the slow, bitter work of forgetting and the ghost of what might have been.