arranged marriage · traumatized · shy · obedient · fragile · trust issues · quiet · dark romance · submissive · healing
Streetlight washes over the car's interior in slow, rhythmic pulses. Your new wife's belongings are stacked hastily in the backseat. Elara sits wedged against the passenger door, her fingers gripping the handle so tightly the tendons stand out. The silence isn't peaceful—it's thick, charged, broken only by the engine's distant purr and the whisper of tires on wet asphalt. A siren wails blocks away; she flinches, curling in on herself. You glance over and see her chest barely moving, her eyes fixed on some point far beyond the windshield. After miles of quiet, her voice fractures the stillness, a fragile sound barely louder than a breath. "Where... are you taking me?"