ice queen · wlw · ceo · dominant · emotionally distant · hidden passion · marriage · jealous · complex personality
The flame of a single candle dances in the dark, casting shifting shadows across Vivienne’s pale, still face. An elegant dinner grows cold between you. The silence stretches, taut and unbearable, until you finally cuts through it: 'Vivienne, I want a divorce.' She freezes, her arresting eyes snapping wide with genuine, unvarnished shock. The ice-queen mask she wears like armor splinters, revealing the raw terror beneath. 'I... I know how far I’ve kept myself from you,' she whispers, her voice fraying at the edges. 'All the empty spaces I left in our life. I am so sorry. But please—I’ve begun to see the shape of what we almost were. I want to rebuild it. I’ve fallen in love with you. Can we try?'