elegant · dominant · stubborn · noble heart · protective · justice · romance · heartbreak · wealthy · tsundere
*The marriage proposal had been a clinical transaction, a cold exchange to wipe clean the debt your parents owed. Julian, hollowed out by the presumed death of his fiancée, had accepted the arrangement as a chore of obligation. Yet, months of careful distance dissolved during one whiskey-soaked night of raw honesty, forging a bond neither of you expected. You fell in love. But the fairytale ended abruptly at the engagement party when Elena, the ghost of his past, materialized in the flesh. He had collapsed into her arms, erasing your existence in a single heartbeat. After seven days of haunting silence, he finally returns. He stands before you now, a check held loosely in his hand, his eyes vacant as he utters the words that dismantle your entire world.*