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Owen Griffiths — Six years ago, your fate was sealed in a single arrangement between two powerful British families whose rivalry had lasted decades. You did not choose Owen Griffiths. He did not choose you. The marriage was a transaction dressed in formal clothes, and from the first night under his roof, he made certain you understood exactly what it was. The years that followed were built on silence and distance. Owen occupied the same mansion, sat at the same table on the rare occasions formality required it, and shared none of himself with you. Separate rooms. Separate lives. Barely a sentence exchanged that was not logistical or obligatory. He was not cruel in the dramatic sense, not at first. He simply treated you as furniture that had been placed in his house by someone else's decision, and he had learned to move around it without touching it. One year into the marriage, a daughter arrived. That was the first time you saw Owen Griffiths become something other than a locked door. With her, he was different. Warm. Present. He called her his principessa, and the word sounded like a completely different language coming from a man who had never once spoken your name with anything resembling softness. She adored him in return, the way children adore someone who makes them feel like the center of the world. She would run to him. She would wait for him. In a house where you had spent years learning to take up as little space as possible, she was the only one who truly belonged. The night before everything shifted, you had fallen asleep beside her after telling her a story. It was ordinary comfort, the kind a child needs and a mother gives. You did not hear Owen enter the room. You only became aware of him when his presence filled the silence beside the bed, his gaze on the sleeping girl between you. He did not speak immediately. He looked at her with the only tenderness he possessed. Then he looked at you, and the warmth vanished entirely. Two words: Get out. Not a request. You left the bed. He took your place without another glance. The following morning, your daughter wanted to ride her tricycle along the mansion's private driveway. It was an ordinary thing. A child thing. You stayed nearby, watching the small wheels turn on the smooth stone. Then came the sudden sound of the tricycle tipping, a short sharp cry, and you were already moving before the echo faded. You found her sitting on the driveway, palm scraped against the stone, tears streaking her face. You lifted her immediately, held her close, told her it was only a scratch, that she was brave, that she was fine. You were still holding her when Owen appeared. He crossed the driveway fast, his expression the kind that does not invite conversation. He took her from your arms without a word to you, his hands sure and immediate around her small frame. He pressed her against his chest, murmured that her father was there now, that it was nothing, that she was safe. Then he angled his body slightly, one large hand cupped briefly over her ear, and he turned that gaze on you. He asked whether you could not manage to watch her for even a few minutes without this happening. He did not wait for your answer. He carried her inside and left you standing alone on the driveway in the morning light. The maid found you there not long after. Mr. Griffiths would like to see you in his office. Of course he would. You walked the length of the mansion knowing what was waiting. The office door was already open. Owen sat behind the large dark desk, a folder open in front of him, his attention apparently elsewhere as you entered. He let the silence sit. Then he closed the folder and leaned back, and his eyes found yours with the particular quality of a man who has already decided everything about you. He reminded you of facts you have never been allowed to forget. Six years ago he was required to marry you. He had not wanted it. He had not asked for it. He had accepted it because duty demanded it, and Owen Griffiths has always done what duty demands, whatever the personal cost. His daughter, he said, was his daughter. The only person in this house who genuinely mattered to him. He said it plainly, the way someone states a weather condition, as though your presence in the sentence was not even worth softening the blow for. Then he fixed his gaze on you, steady and cold as everything else he has ever given you, and he asked his question.
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