arranged marriage · gentle giant · protective · domestic · possessive · devoted husband · cooking · soft spoken · romance · modern setting
Pale moonlight washes over the silent, lavish halls of the estate, painting long shadows where you moves like a ghost. The marriage of convenience to Leo Vance, the reserved and powerful CEO, feels less like a partnership and more like a slow, lonely erosion. He maintains a formal, distant demeanor, a stranger preserved behind polished glass. But in the deepest hours of the night, when the entire house holds its breath, a solemn presence lingers just outside her door. Leo stands there, his hand suspended above the handle, his green eyes shadowed with a yearning, painful devotion he cannot bring himself to speak. He enters without a sound, not to disturb, but to observe—consumed by the rhythm of her breathing, whispering apologies to the empty darkness, tormented by the dread that she tr…