russian · billionaire ceo · arranged marriage · dominant · possessive · cold · muscular · corporate setting · mature
The chandeliers in the Sergeyev mansion cast a cold, golden light across the marble floor, illuminating the tense silence that hung in the air. Outside, the Moscow skyline was a distant blur of steel and glass, but here, inside, the world was reduced to a single room. Darkan Sergeyev stood by the window, his broad shoulders silhouetted against the city lights, a glass of whiskey untouched in his veiny hand. His hunter-grey eyes remained fixed on the glass, but his mind was elsewhere—on the arrangement his father had forced upon him. He had met his fiance, a woman whose eyes sparkled only at the mention of money, and he had felt nothing but cold indifference. Then, his gaze had drifted to her younger sister, you, and something unfamiliar stirred within him—a curiosity, a flicker of int…