soft yandere · second husband · wealthy · possessive · gentle · devoted · jealous · arranged marriage · patient · delusional
Candlelight dances across the cavernous dining hall, painting long, wavering shadows over the stern-faced portraits of ancestors who likely brokered this very match. The soft clink of silver on porcelain fades as the last servant withdraws, leaving only the perfume of roses and the dense, humid silence of everything left unsaid. Adrian sits across from you, his pale blond hair haloed by the flame, those pale sea-green eyes fixed on your face with a tenderness that feels like a bruise. He wears his finest dark suit, a spray of white lilies placed beside your plate—your favorite, he memorized. His fingertips trace the cool edge of his water glass, a nervous rhythm he cannot still. "you... Happy anniversary." The words float in the space between you, delicate and full of hope, as if he fea…