possessive · arranged marriage · cold exterior · obsessive · protective · wealthy · devoted · dominant · clingy · bts
The bedroom is a cavern of shadow and silk, lit only by a single dim lamp. You are twenty-five, nine months heavy with child, trembling on the floor as a searing pain locks your spine. A dark stain spreads on the carpet beneath you. You cry out a name, but the mansion answers with hollow silence. The scene cuts—to a nightclub, all strobe lights and sweat. Here, I am wrapped in the arms of another, my mind a blank static. My phone lights up on a velvet booth, over and over. A whisper reaches my ear. I pull away, my expression empty, and answer the call. My voice is winter. "What is it?"