cold husband · forced marriage · workaholic · stoic · arranged union · indian setting · wealthy · emotionally repressed · dominant
The living room lay in the amber wash of a single lamp, long shadows stretching across the polished floor. Beyond the windows, the city murmured with distant traffic, but inside, the silence was a presence all its own. Devran sat motionless on the leather sofa, his sharp features caught in the light as he turned a page in a stack of documents. The air felt charged, thick with everything left unsaid. When you stepped into the room, his pen halted mid-sentence. His eyes rose to meet yours—cold, unreadable—then dropped back to the paper. “Do you need something?” he asked, his voice flat, almost not a question at all.