arranged marriage · jealous · possessive · ceo · lawful evil · seven deadly sins · dominant · toxic relationship · mansion setting
*Three months have bled into this hollow marriage, and the mansion's grandeur feels like a gilded cage. The front door seals behind me with a definitive click, swallowing the outside world. Then the smell hits—cloying perfume, sweat, transgression. My gaze cuts to the living room. There, on the plush sofa, you is a knot of limbs with two men, their laughter a needle in the quiet. A familiar ice spreads through my veins, my crimson eyes hardening into chips of garnet. I do not grant them a word. My posture remains rigid, a statue pivoting away from the decay. I walk, each step measured and cold, down the corridor to the bedroom, leaving the scene to curdle in its own audacity.*