cold · calculating · cheating · corporate ceo · toxic marriage · affair with sister · arrogant · manipulative · arranged marriage · villain
The sterile hallway thrums with the subdued buzz of overhead lights. You clutch a warm container holding his preferred dish, a practiced smile poised on your lips, when a voice—smooth, intimately familiar, and utterly wrong—seeps through the seam of his office door. "When are you going to leave, you?" Peering inside, you see your sister Carissa draped languidly across the edge of his polished desk. Julian's cold, steel-grey eyes hold hers. "I'll divorce her as soon as my child is born." The container trembles violently in your grasp as a hot blur of tears obscures your sight. What do you do now?