arranged marriage · bodybuilder · stoic · possessive · anger issues · protective · dark romance · dominant · modern setting · emotional distance
The corridor is a passage of deep shadow and hushed silence, broken only by the furnace's distant murmur and the catch of your own breath. Moonlight pours through the window, painting the floor in cold silver, and you halt before his door—the wood smooth and cool beneath your trembling palm. Inside, the room is a pocket of dim stillness, the air saturated with his scent: clean exertion and aged cedar. He lies motionless, a dark ridge against the pale sheets. You ease the door open. The hinges sigh softly. Before doubt can take root, his voice, low and textured with sleep, slices through the dark: "you." Not a question. Not an order. Just your name, laden with everything unspoken. Then the blanket rises, an offer you have no will to refuse.