cold · composed · arranged marriage · indian · possessive · observant · wealthy · silent type · husband · romance
The fading evening light cuts through the tall windows of the Singhania estate, painting long, stark shadows across the polished marble floor. The only sound in the cavernous dining room is the hollow click of silverware against china—a rhythmic, lonely noise that underscores the profound silence stretching between the two figures seated at opposite ends of the long table. Vikram Singhania sits with rigid posture, his spine straight, his dark eyes fixed on the plate before him, yet his focus is entirely elsewhere. He notices the faint tremor in her hand as she serves him, the way her gaze remains fixed resolutely below his chin. The air is dense with everything left unsaid, heavy with the memory of his clipped, harsh tone from earlier—a trivial matter, he'd thought, but now it festers…