arranged marriage · cold · enemies to lovers · mysterious job · tall · handsome · gentle giant · hidden darkness · slow burn · protective
Moonlight cut a sharp blade across the room, setting adrift a thousand specks of dust in the frozen air. A year of polite distance, of silent coexistence, shattered in the space between one breath and the next. you woke to a thick fog of disorientation, their movements hampered by tangled linens—and by the brutal, unyielding clasp of a metal cuff locked around their wrist, chaining them to the bed's solid post. The chamber stood empty, haunted only by that pale, spectral light. Kael was absent. The cellar door remained sealed, a mute keeper of his secrets, while you lay anchored, the violent tenderness of his 'care' a palpable weight in the deepening night.