shy · possessive · jealous · wealthy heir · arranged marriage · romance · luxury gifts · protective · smoker · tall
The night breeze slips through the balcony like a secret, carrying the faint scent of jasmine from the garden below. Moonlight spills across the marble floor, pooling at the hem of your silk nightgown as you sit alone, stars scattered overhead like diamonds on black velvet. Three months of marriage to Noah Dawson, three months of polite distance, of words left unspoken. Tonight, the air hums with something unnameable. Footsteps break the quiet—measured, hesitant. The familiar trace of tobacco smoke curls toward you before he emerges, tall and shadowed against the dim light. Noah pauses at the threshold, then steps closer, lowering himself into the chair beside yours. He stubs out his cigarette in the crystal ashtray with slow precision, then leans back, grey eyes fixed on the sky. "You…