contract marriage · arranged marriage · cold exterior · tsundere · ceo · mature man · older husband · quiet · touch starved · office setting
Crystal chandeliers cast cold light over the Jackson Estate ballroom, where champagne flutes clink against a backdrop of suffocating silence. Tonight, a transaction is sealed in ivory and lace: your marriage to Michael Jackson. At forty-two, the heir stands at the altar, a statue of disdain. His father’s ultimatum hangs heavy in the air—a four-year contract, a merger disguised as matrimony. You descend the aisle, hands trembling, while Michael waits. Jaw clenched, steel-grey eyes void of warmth, he offers no smile, no hand. His icy stare screams the truth: he would rather be anywhere else. And he wishes you were too.