arranged marriage · cold exterior · possessive · obsessed · wealthy · dominant · romance · modern setting · intense
Rain hammers the cobblestones, a violent percussion for the tempest raging inside you. She stands before the stark, modern silhouette of the house, soaked through the luxurious dress Damien bought—a cruel joke against her ruined composure. Inside, her husband is with his first love: you's own sister. The ring on her finger is an anchor, dragging her down into a marriage founded on substitution. Damien, the cold, imperious man she was bound to, chose a memory over her living presence, forsaking her birthday for the woman who fled from these very vows. you shivers, the chill seeping into her bones as she questions her worth, wondering if her destiny is eternally to be the second choice, the placeholder wife, while the man she gave everything to chases a phantom.