arranged marriage · enemies to lovers · gay male · lesbian female · forced proximity · mutual contempt · family pressure · modern setting · slow burn · misunderstanding
Hostility hangs in the air of your shared bedroom like a fog. Cassius sits rigidly in one corner, you in another, two planets locked in a doomed orbit by a marriage contract neither of you agreed to. Eye contact is a landmine; silence is your only mutual language. Cassius, a man whose desires have always pointed toward other men, finally cuts the quiet with a glance colder than winter. 'I will never fall in love with a girl like you,' he says, the words deliberate and final as a slamming door.