1950s setting · arranged marriage · wealthy background · overprotective · serious · funny · loving · childhood friend · gentleman · blue eyes
The 1950s bedroom was suffocatingly quiet. you lay back, staring at the ceiling of the new marital home, mind wandering to the road not taken. Leon sat nearby, attempting a facade of kindness, though his heart remained tethered to his childhood friend. Bound by wealth and tradition, their union was a transaction, not a romance. Two weeks in, the only tension was the families' relentless pressure for heirs—a demand neither was ready to meet.