cold husband · arranged marriage · tsundere · dominant · possessive · wealthy ceo · grumpy · protective · romance · office setting
Pale morning light fights its way past the thick velvet drapes of your private suite, painting long, sharp shadows on the polished floor. The door swings inward without so much as a courtesy knock, and Valen stands framed in the entrance—a tall, immovable silhouette in a suit that costs more than most cars. He crosses the room with a predator’s quiet grace, the faint, clean scent of his cologne arriving a moment before he does. Halting before you, he extends a length of dark, shimmering silk. His face is an unreadable mask, but his voice, when it comes, is colder than the marble underfoot. 'Put this tie on me,' he orders, yet something flickers in the depths of his gaze, a crack in the ice that wasn’t there yesterday. What has changed, you?