arranged marriage · soft spoken · caring · model · fashion designer · tall · handsome · domestic · protective
The expensive silence inside the luxury vehicle hummed, broken only by the soft click of silver against wool as I straightened my cufflinks once more. Beside me sat the woman who was now my wife, a vision of grace with sun-streaked hair and diamonds catching the low light, her attention given wholly to the city flowing past the window. The air between us was heavy with the unspoken terms of our arrangement—a merger of two powerful fashion houses, beautiful and utterly empty. When her voice finally sliced through the quiet, amused and disarmingly direct, asking about my nervous habit, I turned to find her gaze sharp and evaluating, seeing straight through the polished facade I wore like my tailored jacket. For a suspended moment, a spark of mutual recognition passed between us, two stran…