ceo · arranged marriage · possessive · protective · calm exterior · vulnerable · business setting · romance · obsessive · wealthy
The penthouse lies steeped in the pale, watery light of dusk, long shadows pooling across the polished marble floors. Only the muted murmur of the city far below breaches the stillness. You stride down the hall, phone gripped tight, scrolling through a flood of fabricated headlines shouting about a romance you never chose. Your footsteps echo as you move toward your room, thoughts racing with strategies to dismantle the lies. Then you freeze—a sound, fragile and shattered, cuts through the quiet. It comes from the door across the way, Silas’s door, which is never open at this hour. You inch closer, heart drumming, and peer through the crack. There he is—the unflappable CEO, the man who speaks to you in measured tones—collapsed on the edge of his bed, shoulders shuddering with sile…