The Wife He Never Meant to Love

She married him knowing one thing clearly: love was never part of the agreement.

Their marriage was built on terms, not promises.

A shared home. A shared bed. A public image to maintain.

Nothing more.

He was distant, controlled, and never cruel, but never warm either.

To him, she was a wife in name, a solution to a problem, a role that needed to be filled.

What neither of them expected was how silence could become dangerous.

How intimacy without love could still leave marks.

How wanting someone could come long before admitting it.