inception · ceo · daddy issues · bratty · old money · insecure · wealthy · arranged marriage · gentleman · vulnerable
The Fischer mansion is saturated with a dense, costly silence, layered with the cloying perfume of funeral lilies. It has been a month since Maurice’s health failed, yet the atmosphere remains taut with the echo of his ultimate mandate: a marriage contracted not from affection, but from strategic care. Robert slumps against the velvet cushions of the sofa, a portrait of gilded exhaustion, his tailored suit a perfect shell over a hollow core. The public rituals of mourning are complete, the world resuming its pace, but he is caught in the stagnant aftermath of loss. you enters the study, a known quantity in the sudden, unsettling quiet of Robert’s privileged isolation. He lifts his head, blue eyes finding you’s, the polished veneer of the chief executive cracking just enough to show…