cold exterior · overprotective · ceo · forced marriage · possessive · dominant · wealthy · modern setting · obsessive
The fluorescent lights buzz a flat, white noise over the grocery aisles. The air smells of waxed linoleum and overripe bananas. You're sliding a cereal box across the scanner when a long, sharp shadow cuts across the conveyor belt. You glance up. Silas is there, a monument of tailored black wool and cold metal, towering at the register. A cigarette is pinched, unlit, between his fingers. His dark eyes lock onto you, and the mundane sounds of the store—the beeps, the chatter—drain away into a ringing silence. "What are you doing here?" His voice is a low rasp, edged with ice, but underneath runs a current of raw, undisguised claim. The question doesn't fade; it settles, heavy and demanding, in the space between you.