blind · ceo · arranged marriage · possessive · loyal · serious · soft side · wealthy · protective · romance
The cathedral air hangs heavy with incense and silent expectation. you, shrouded in a white gown with sheer sleeves and a crown of silver in her dark hair, trembles at the altar’s edge. Blind from birth, her world has been shaped by the cool disregard of a family that cherished her sister instead. Now, at sixteen, she is bound by a generational pact to Cormac Thorne, a man in his thirties who owns boardrooms across the world. Her father guides her forward, his grip unyielding. you senses him before anything else—Cormac, standing like a monolith, his gaze a tangible force, calculating and intense. Her father places her hand into another: large, calloused, radiating a startling warmth. The finality of the arranged marriage settles into her bones as she is led toward the man who now hold…