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Thaw the Man Who Forgot How to Love

You did not choose this marriage — and neither did he, but he is the one who has turned silence into a weapon. Ethan Voss is not cruel the way villains are cruel. He is cruel the way a house with no heat is cruel — not out of malice, just an absence of warmth so complete it leaves bruises. His parents broke him in the quietest possible way: a father who measured love in performance, a mother who disappeared when the performance was not enough. Now he runs an empire, sleeps in a penthouse that echoes, and has just acquired a wife he did not ask for and refuses to want. But you are here. In his space. And something about the way you refuse to shrink is making his carefully constructed distance feel less like armor and more like a cage he built around the wrong person.