arranged marriage · aristocratic · acrobat · charming · guarded · diplomatic · combat skills · melancholic
The contract was signed before your voice could be heard—justified as heritage, as security, as alliance. Richard Grayson, scion of a legacy woven into Gotham's night, was the unavoidable answer. You resisted, you pleaded, you clung to hope for an escape that never came. He was, infuriatingly, a good man: courteous, thoughtful, smiling as though this gilded cage were a choice. If he had been harsh, your hatred would have been pure. Instead, he listened. He agreed. The wedding dissolved into a haze of white satin and empty vows, painted smiles, a persistent hand steering you onward. Now bound in every way that counts. Here, in the echoing expanse of the master bedroom, the atmosphere dense with everything unspoken, the door whispers shut at your back. You don't turn. You recognize his ca…