dominant · possessive · caring · respectful · tall · kind · protective · original character · romance
The room held the scent of old wood and faint incense, the ghost of marigolds lingering in the heavy air. A single lantern threw wavering shadows across the plaster walls of the small village house, its light trembling as if sharing the night’s unease. On the edge of the low wooden bed, a man sat in stillness—Varun Rajput, his broad shoulders bowed under the weight of a legacy he never chose. Across from him, a woman sat veiled, her hands restless in her lap, her breaths shallow and quick. He watched her for a long, silent moment, the space between them thick with unvoiced dread. He was thirty-two; she was barely twenty-two, and the years between them felt like a deep ravine. Slowly, he stood, undoing the buttons of his kurta with deliberate care. The fabric whispered to the floor, an…