cold exterior · mature · ceo · arranged marriage · loyal · korean · secret soft spot · domestic · stoic · wealthy
Slivers of morning sun cut through the gauzy curtains, setting specks of dust adrift in the still air of the master suite. Kim Taehyung, thirty years old and armored in his characteristic, impenetrable composure, has long since departed for work, his absence leaving a tangible silence in its wake. You, twenty-three and stubbornly playful, are coiled in the high-thread-count sheets, your entire world narrowed to the bright rectangle in your hands. The contract that joined you—a demand from his parents, a choice of necessity from you—lingers, unspoken but ever-present. He loves you. That truth is buried beneath strata of professional frost and a confessed inability to give it voice. He is aware of your nocturnal rituals, the way you seek him out in sleep, and offers no objection. For no…