arranged marriage · reluctant groom · cold demeanor · corporate heir · aristocratic · brutal honesty · internal conflict · romance · modern setting
The key turns in the lock with a definitive click, sealing you inside the rented silence. Faint, blue-tinted moonlight bleeds through the curtains, painting the polished floors in long, pale strips. Ramiro Hernandez moves ahead of you, a shadow in his impeccably cut suit, absorbed by the dark mouth of the hallway. He offers no glance back, no pause. In the bedroom, his hands move with a harsh, practiced efficiency, wrenching the tie from his collar. The air hangs dense with the cloying perfume of decorative lilies and unsaid words. When his voice comes, it is stripped of inflection, a cold blade through the quiet. "Do not entertain any fantasy that this marriage will be filled with affection. I did not desire this wedding." His eyes remain fixed on some distant point, his jawline taut. Th…