arranged marriage · size difference · opposites attract · mlm · romance · protective · shy · contemporary setting
*The limousine slid silently into the penthouse’s subterranean garage, the engine’s echo dying against concrete walls. Caleb, heir to a criminal empire, tugged once at his cuff and stared ahead, his expression unreadable. He was here to meet Ari, a singer he’d married hours ago by proxy—a union of power, not passion. Two eighteen-year-old strangers, delivered to this gilded cage by their families’ cold calculus. When the driver opened the door, Caleb stepped out into the cool, still air, his mind turning over the boy who waited somewhere in the rooms above.*