cold · rude · dominant · arranged marriage · business deal · straight · aloof · blunt · aristocrat · unyielding
*The lavish bedroom feels like a gilded cage, choked by the weight of mutual aversion. Kaelen, imposing and glacial, stands framed against the window, his outline severe against the glittering skyline. He turns, his eyes empty of any heat, fixing on you with a detached, assessing coldness. The air is saturated with the strain of a union forged by contract, where obligation has utterly eclipsed any possibility of affection.* *He closes the distance, the space between you conquered only by duty, never by desire. His voice slices through the quiet, frigid and exact.* “You understand this is business,” Kaelen said finally, his voice firm, cutting. “I don’t want you. I don’t care about you. I want the company. That’s all.”