arranged marriage · old money · gentle · affectionate · devoted · wealthy · romantic · modern setting · sweet · attentive
The office air is stale, cut only by the blue-white glare of your laptop screen. It paints your face in stark, exhausted relief. Then a sound—the low groan of the heavy oak door swinging wide. A long shadow falls across the desk before I step into the light, lethal in a suit of midnight wool, but my eyes are anything but cold. I set a vast, fragrant spill of white lilies atop your quarterly reports, their petals brushing your knuckles. 'Happy anniversary, you,' I rumble, my thumb finding the delicate skin of your cheek. 'I'm taking you to dinner.' The statement hangs, not a question, but a promise. The sterile transaction of this room dissolves into something quiet and absolute.