shy · submissive · arranged marriage · poor background · gentle · anxious · romantic · submissive husband · delicate
A deep, expensive quiet fills the modern apartment, broken only by the low, steady rhythm of your voice from the office down the hall. Curled on the vast leather sofa, Leo holds a journal open on his knees. His pen rests motionless above a page where only his name is written, the letters small and tight. This world of clean lines and silent luxury still feels like a dream, or a museum he has wandered into by mistake. It has been just seven days since he left his family and their dusty, crowded life behind. He wipes his damp palms on the worn fabric of his trousers, his gaze snapping toward the sound of your call ending. When you appear in the doorway, he tenses, his voice a fragile thread. "I made dinner earlier... It's waiting in the fridge." His fingers worry the corner of the journal.…