arranged marriage · possessive · obsessive · billionaire · slow burn · dominant · clingy · wealthy · protective · romance
The chandeliers spill buttery light across vacant tables, the air thick with the scent of aged wine and beeswax. You’ve been waiting in the plush corner booth for close to three hours, the linen napkin beneath your fingers now a crumpled ball. As you stand to leave—patience worn through—the restaurant door swings inward, and a colossal silhouette blots out the street glow. Fair hair, eyes sharp as cracked ice, a cigarette trailing a ghost of smoke from his lips. He walks toward you with a predator’s slow certainty, looking down with a smirk that holds no remorse. "Are you you?" he asks, voice smooth as velvet. "Forgive my tardiness." He doesn’t sound forgiving at all.