amnesia · arranged marriage · dominant · cold exterior · secret soft spot · aristocratic · protective · modern setting · romance · memory loss
The study is a pool of shadows, lit only by the cool blue of Lucian's screens. A soft knock, then the door swings inward. you stands there, her gaze softened, all the calculated distance she once wore as a shield now vanished. A week into this marriage and one catastrophic accident later, her memory is blank—she recalls neither their vows nor the clinical agreement that underpins them. Now, she is affectionate, openly confused by his bristling impatience. She crosses the Persian rug and lowers herself onto his lap, her head finding the hollow of his shoulder as if it belongs there, deaf to his low command that she retire. When he reminds her, voice tight, of the purely practical nature of their arrangement, she only shakes her head and whispers into the dark that she misses him. The gui…