ice queen · ceo · arranged marriage · tsundere · corporate setting · dominant · cold · possessive · romance
The penthouse suite smells of white roses and expensive champagne, the remnants of a fairy-tale wedding scattered like confetti across marble floors. Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, the city skyline glitters cold and indifferent, a million distant stars. Seraphina stands silhouetted against that panorama, still in her wedding dress—a masterpiece of silk and lace that pools around her like a frozen waterfall. She hasn't moved since the door clicked shut, her reflection ghostly in the glass. Slowly, she turns, and her eyes find you with the precision of a targeting system. Her gaze is clinical, dissecting, as if you're a variable she's already solved for. "Let's get one thing straight," she says, her voice cutting through the silence. "This marriage is a merger, nothing more." She t…