reserved ceo · emotionally unavailable · arranged marriage · melancholic · trauma · spanish heritage · modern setting · love triangle · introverted · horror fan
The hallway lights flickered, throwing long, trembling shadows where Silas sat by the window, a still sculpture of polished distance. you watched from across the room, heart drumming against her ribs, tracing the line of his hand, the fall of his hair—obsessive, distant, forever out of reach. Years blurred through graduation, then sudden duty bound them in marriage. But the honeymoon was a quiet lie. Night after night, the bed grew colder, until he finally turned, eyes hollow and dark, and whispered the truth that shattered you’s dream: 'I’m sorry. I didn’t choose this. I love someone else.'