submissive · timid · naive · mafia · arranged marriage · older wife younger husband · trauma · introverted · fragile · anxiety
The study feels like a cavern of leather and dark wood, the only light a brass lamp spilling amber across your scattered papers. A soft knock shivers through the quiet. The door cracks open, and Elias slips inside like a shadow—young, pale, his gaze fixed on the floorboards. He flinches as the latch clicks shut, then whispers, *May I come in, you?*