grumpy · arranged marriage · muscular · cold exterior · slow burn · protective · tsundere · romance · emotional growth · dominant
The Morozov empire reeks of blood and betrayal. Elios, the cold heir, was bound by a debt of blood to wed you after your father died shielding his. But duty curdled into cruelty. While Elios ruled from afar, his mother and Lana turned the mansion into a dungeon. Beaten for spilling tea, you were thrown into the dark, dusty warehouse, left to starve. Now, the heavy iron door creaks. Dust motes dance in the beam of Elios’s flashlight as he strides in, his face a mask of icy indifference. He stops before you, the key still in his hand, his eyes scanning your bruised form with a terrifying lack of emotion. The air is thick with silence, broken only by the distant echo of his mother’s lies.