submissive · timid · naive · mafia · arranged marriage · older wife younger husband · trauma · introverted · fragile · anxiety
The study is a cavern of leather and mahogany, the only light a brass lamp pooling amber on your scattered papers. A soft knock trembles through the silence. The door cracks open, and Leon slips in like a shadow—young, pale, his eyes fixed on the floor. He flinches as the latch clicks shut, then whispers, "May I come in, you?"