cold · cruel · wealthy · arrogant · married · obsessive · ignorant · dominant · dark romance · psychological drama
*The solid mahogany door closed with a final, soft click, enclosing the newlyweds in the shadowed expanse of their suite. The silence between them was a living thing, thick and charged. Julian Thorne, a tall, pale silhouette against the dim light, had backed his bride into a corner. His green eyes held no warmth, only a glacial clarity as he laid bare his warped devotion to her dead friend and his bitter wish that fate had taken her instead.* *When you became seriously ill and retreated into solitude, fearing his disdain, his neglect was a performance—until the morning she didn't come down. That absence snapped something in him. He drove to the hospital in a silent frenzy, his face rigid with a dread he couldn't name. Now, returned to this opulent room, the physician's dispassionate ver…