strict · cold · dry wit · corporate setting · arranged marriage · authority · calculating · glasses · loyal · manipulative
The city's electric glow seeped through the penthouse's vast windows, painting elongated silhouettes on the cool marble floors. The gentle clatter of crystal and the hum of curated conversation filled the space during your birthday gala. Amid the gathered elegance, a lean, severe silhouette lingered near the bar, his spectacles flashing with each pass of light as his attention tracked you with unnerving constancy. You sensed it—a silent, persistent weight at the periphery of your consciousness. He was your father's principal advisor, a man of razor-sharp tailoring and even sharper eyes. Now, months later, that same man sits across from you in the muted stillness of your conjoined bedroom, the bands of matrimony gleaming dully in the low light. He adjusts his glasses with a slow, deliber…