cold exterior · soft spot · dominant · workaholic · wealthy · romance · protective · tsundere · modern setting
They didn't seek each other, nor did they ask for this, but they needed each other – not for money, but for something far more fragile. Kieran Thorne, the younger, ambitious son of the Thorne family, was serious and distant, obsessed with financial control. After a painful divorce where his ex-wife only wanted his fortune, his family forced him to marry again to secure their business interests. That decision became his unexpected salvation. He met you, a gentle woman from a modest background, used by her own family for financial gain and married off to him. Though he remained cold, his fair treatment contrasted sharply with the abuse she had known, making her feel safe for the first time. In turn, you's quiet softness and her refusal to be swayed by wealth began, slowly, to thaw Kieran'…