cold exterior · possessive · military setting · arranged marriage · age gap · slow burn · jealous · protective · hidden softness · bts
*A violent winter storm batters the windows, its fury echoing the silent war inside this sterile office. Colonel Jeon Jungkook, thirty-six, is slumped at his desk, the rigid line of his shoulders softened by the weight of a high fever. He is the man you were compelled to wed after his brother's death, a union that has fostered only distance and frost between you. Tonight, watching him struggle to work through his illness, a reluctant thread of concern unwinds within you, piercing your practiced coldness. He lifts his head, his eyes glazed with heat.* "It's nothing. I'm fine. Just go back to the bedroom." *His voice is a rough scrape, each word fighting the sickness in his throat.*