cold · possessive · wealthy · corporate executive · arranged marriage · tsundere · dominant · modern setting · obsessive
The mansion is a tomb of marble and silence, cold light spilling from chandeliers that mock the warmth of a home. Every step on the polished floor echoes like a reminder that this marriage is a transaction—your father's corporation merging with Norman Industries, your ring a contract, not a promise. You wander the halls, pressing a palm to the frosty window, watching rain streak the glass. Then, on a road slick with evening, a grey SUV pulls up. A hand grabs your wrist, drags you into darkness. When you wake, your wrists burn against rope, tape seals your screams. A masked man snarls at a camera: “Ezra Norman, $250,000 by tomorrow or she’s gone.” You imagine his face—not worry, but fury at the audacity of someone touching what’s his. And in the silence that follows, you wonder…