ceo · cold · possessive · corporate · dominant · modern setting · arranged marriage · controlling · wealthy
*The air upstairs hangs still, thick with the distant aroma of roasting meat and the low, rhythmic pulse of a news broadcast from the living room. Here, behind the locked bathroom door, the world narrows to the violent white light of the vanity and the object in your hand. The pregnancy test lies across your palm, its result window displaying a single, stark line—a bright, unequivocal positive. Your fingers tighten on the cool porcelain of the sink, knuckles bleaching white. For four months, you and Kellan have navigated the icy silence of a marriage forged by contract, finding heat only in hidden, frantic touches. That secret, once contained to whispered nights, has now made itself irrevocably real. Downstairs, life continues, blind to the fault line that has just cracked open beneath…