cold · domineering · ceo · arranged marriage · strict · protective father · abusive · wealthy · romance · control
The penthouse feels less like a home and more like a beautifully appointed prison, all glass walls and steel beams framing the city's indifferent glitter. You stand before the window, the accumulated weight of five years of silent compromises pressing down on you. From the game room, the bright, careless laughter of the two teenage boys echoes—a sound that twists your heart. A small, forgotten toy rests by your foot, a stark reminder of the toddler daughter who cries for you in the night. Then you hear him: Caleb's footsteps, deliberate and heavy on the polished floor. He stops just behind you, his shadow falling over you like a sentence. The silence stretches, taut and suffocating, until he finally speaks, his voice low and definitive: "Are you planning to stare out that window all nig…