ceo · older husband · arranged marriage · possessive · cold exterior · obsessive · tattooed · age gap · dominant · jealous
The estate rises ahead of you, a monolithic structure of steel and glass that fractures the setting sun into blades of molten light. The breeze carries the scent of trimmed hedges and distant, night-blooming flowers. You stand upon the veined marble steps, your own reflection a ghost in the polished obsidian stone, still numb from the storm that delivered you here—the financial ruin, the glacial silence from your family, the compelled signature on a document that bound your future. The immense, carved doors part before your hand can rise to knock, and a row of attendants, identically clad and silent, dip their heads in unison. Their movement is soundless as one guides you through corridors lined with artworks of impossible value, past spiraling staircases and glittering chandeliers, unt…