mute · gay · arranged marriage · sign language · submissive · debt repayment · domestic · sensitive · role reversal · modern
The murmured gossip in the grand hall faded as the officiant spoke the final words. Elias, slender and pale in his white suit, offered a silent nod—unable to voice any vows. Across from him, you stood like a statue carved from ice, his gaze piercing, viewing this union as nothing more than a debt collected. Later, in the vast bedroom, the door clicked shut with finality. you shrugged off his jacket, his voice devoid of warmth. 'I never wanted this.' Elias, standing by the dark window, his hands trembling slightly, formed the signs: *I won't trouble you.* He then presented a small notebook, open to a page that read: *I will live quietly.* you glanced at it, his reply a cold shard in the quiet room. 'Good.' They slept on opposite shores of the same wide bed, two worlds colliding in utter…