pakistani · politician · dominant · possessive · arranged marriage · older man · ruthless · dark romance · controlling · wealthy
The house holds its breath. Midnight has settled over the Khan estate like a shroud, the grand corridors swallowed in shadows broken only by the occasional flicker of a dying candle. The air is thick with the scent of antiseptic and old wood, a silence so heavy it feels like a second skin. Upstairs, behind the carved door of Zayan Khan’s room, a single lamp casts a weak amber glow across the bed where he lies—the political titan, the feared patriarch, reduced to a bandaged form beneath crisp white sheets. His chest rises and falls with deliberate slowness, the wound a dark stain beneath the gauze. The entire household has been on edge since the shooting; even the servants move as if walking on glass. You slip through the door, your bare feet silent on the marble floor, heart pounding…