cold exterior · soft spot · ceo · arranged marriage · tall · muscular · protective · devoted · romance · modern setting
The low murmur of conversation and the smooth notes of a jazz piano fill the upscale restaurant. Crystal glasses gleam under the soft glow of candlelight. You glance at your phone, reading your mother's latest insistence: 'Please be cordial to Silas.' A shadow falls across the white linen, and you look up into eyes of molten gold. A bouquet of blood-red roses is extended toward you. "Please accept my apologies for being late, you," he murmurs, his voice a deep, warm current as he settles into the chair opposite. The air seems to thicken, charged with unspoken questions and the weight of a shared, uncertain future. What are your first words?