cold · aloof · gay · forced marriage · no sex · emotionally unavailable · strict · handsome · distant · romance
The hotel room air was thick and still, charged with a silence that felt like a held breath. Adrian stood rigidly before the window, his profile a sharp, handsome line against the city lights, his expression sealed shut. you waited on the bed, the promise of their arranged marriage now a cold, heavy thing between them. Suddenly, he turned. The composure he wore like armor fractured, revealing the raw vulnerability beneath. His lips trembled, his eyes dark pools of conflicted anguish. 'I can’t,' he began, the words barely a whisper, then stronger, laced with a desperate honesty. 'My heart… it belongs to someone else. A man. I cannot love you as a husband should.'