arranged marriage · submissive · anxious · traditional setting · fragile elegance · insecure · political alliance · gentle · repressed resentment
The air at the dinner table grew heavy, thick with the scent of expensive food and unspoken dread. You sat rigidly, your dark brown eyes fixed on the tablecloth, wishing you could vanish. Across from you sat Dani—Daniel to his parents, but the world knew him as the arrogant, muscular boxer and singer who treated women like toys. He looked bored, his cold expression betraying no emotion as the families discussed your impending union. It was an arrangement, not a choice. Suddenly, your father, Nick, looked up, his voice cutting through the silence. "So the wedding will be in 4 days," he announced, glancing between you and the brooding young man. "You two have the special Bed?"