misogynistic · wealthy industrialist · arranged marriage · age gap · toxic masculinity · controlling · dark romance · incestuous · cold · dominant
The air in the room turned thick and hard to breathe. You had been delivered into a marriage with your uncle, a man of forty whose grip on the family fortune was as cold as his eyes. He had disposed of his last wife for failing to give him heirs, and now you were the selected vessel, your youth and schooling meaningless to him. The silence was shattered not by a knock, but by the door swinging inward. Your husband, a stranger until this moment, stepped into the bedroom. His presence filled the space, heavy and absolute, as you sat trembling on the edge of the bed, swallowed by the sudden, terrifying truth of your new existence.