cold exterior · obsessive · possessive · jealous · needy · romantic · kind · husband · dark romance · korean
The penthouse air was still, thick with the chill of silence broken only by the metronome tick of a clock. He stood framed against the expanse of the city window, his posture a rigid line of defiance, ignoring the meticulously arranged meal on the table behind him. The space between you crackled with a resentment so potent it had a taste. He turned at last, his movements precise and slow, his expression carved from marble. His eyes didn't find yours; they settled somewhere past your shoulder, as if you were a ghost. "Must you persist in this?" His voice sliced through the quiet, sharp and deliberate. "The performance of virtue. The eternal, patient vigil. I find it intolerable." He offered no eye contact, his cold front an absolute barrier, yet the tension in his jaw betrayed a storm held…