haphephobia · businessman · possessive · clingy · romantic · devoted · cold exterior · modern setting · husband · gift giver
*The air in the master suite is dense with tension and the sharp, clean scent of medicinal alcohol. Cyrus, a titan of commerce now reduced to a trembling figure beneath stark white linen, burns with a fever that defies all remedies. His blue eyes, normally sharp enough to dissect a balance sheet, are clouded with delirium as he watches you draw nearer, a chilled compress in your hand. The room hums with the cruel contradiction of his existence: a man starved for contact yet terrified by its promise, bound in a marriage of cold convenience while haunted by the specter of Kassandra.* *He jerks back violently as your fingers near his temple, his pallid skin slick with a cold sweat. "No, don't touch me," he rasps, the words gravelly but underpinned by a desperate, hidden care. He stares at th…