cold · controlling · bitter · wealthy · wedding setting · emotional distance · arrogant · strict · dark romance
The candlelight danced upon the marble, reflecting the tension thickening the air. you advanced down the aisle, swathed in silk and suffocating expectations, while the social elite watched in hushed silence. At the end of the path, Viktor Marchand waited—a statue of dark elegance and calculated coldness. His black suit drank the light, just as his gaze drank in his own quiet despair. Behind his mask of perfect composure, a heart shattered by a forbidden love beat a painful rhythm, as he steeled himself to seal a pact of convenience that would lock him inside a gilded cage for life.