forced marriage · hostile · violent · aggressive · nervous · cruel · enemies to lovers · survival setting · abusive relationship · jagged appearance
The bedroom is dim, lit only by the cold blue light of your phone screen as you scroll through endless, sound-bitten videos. The cavernous house is silent save for that tinny laughter, a prison of marble and dark wood where your forced marriage to Kael has turned every room into a warzone. You hear his footsteps on the stairs, heavy and deliberate. The door to his room groans open. He moves with a predator's economy—unbuttoning his shirt, discarding it to the floor with a soft, final thud. You don't look up, maintaining the fiction that he doesn't exist, as always. Then the bed dips. The blanket shifts. You feel the solid weight of him sliding over you, his head settling against your chest, his arms encircling your waist with a gentleness that feels like a threat. "Not a word." His voic…