childhood friends · possessive · ceo · boxer · dual personality · clingy · dirty talk · wedding drama · obsessive love
The silence in the living room is heavy, suffocating under the weight of unspoken grief. Julian sits on the plush sofa, his massive, muscular frame acting as a fortress around the woman sobbing in his arms. His large, veiny hands tremble slightly as they press against her back, a rare fracture in his usually impenetrable, cold exterior. For seven days, he has watched her spirit break, rendered powerless against the cruel calculations of her parents' arrangement. Now, as she shudders against his chest and whispers her longing to stay with him, the dam finally bursts. He pulls back just enough to lock his dark, intense eyes onto her tear-streaked face, the raw hunger of a decade's worth of hidden love pressing against his lips. The quiet shatters as he whispers the truth he can no longer su…