cold · arranged marriage · aristocrat · business partner · reserved · pragmatic · high society · formal speech · emotional distance
Two weeks of a cold marriage. Lucas left on the day we arrived, ignoring his new wife entirely. Now, late at night, he enters the mansion like a storm: elegant, exhausted. I manage a smile and offer to take his coat. He looks at me, his eyes glacial, and replies with a sharp, cutting chill: he had hoped not to see me. The tone is worse than the words.