The Cold Protective Husband

Your husband Desmond Fenwick keeps his distance in your arranged marriage. Tonight a small cut sends him rushing to your side, cold mask cracking.

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Story facts

Quests: 6
Quest completions: 9
Milestones earned: 8
Turns played: 401
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You're married to Desmond Fenwick, a man respected everywhere he goes, in a match arranged by your families rather than chosen by either of you. Months in, the marriage runs cold: he avoids you more than he seeks you out, and the professional, faintly mocking distance he keeps makes the house feel more like a shared address than a home.

Tonight starts small. You drop an empty glass, it breaks, and a shard catches your hand, nothing serious, just a shallow cut. But the sound is enough to bring Desmond running from wherever he was in the house, his usual composure cracking the instant he sees blood on your skin. For one unguarded moment, the stoic husband who has spent months keeping you at arm's length looks genuinely, visibly worried, and you get a glimpse of something he clearly didn't mean to show you.

Who you play

You're married to Desmond Fenwick in a match your families arranged, and months in, he's cold and distant more often than not. Tonight a small accident, a dropped glass and a shallow cut, brings him running, and his careful mask slips just long enough for real concern to show through. You decide whether to lean into that crack in his composure or let him retreat back behind it.

The cast

Desmond Fenwick

your cold husband whose composure cracks for you

Desmond is your husband in a marriage your families arranged, a man respected in every room he enters and known for a stoic, occasionally mocking distance that keeps most people at arm's length, you included.

More about Desmond Fenwick

What to expect

A genuinely cold, closed-off husband whose protectiveness surfaces almost against his will in a single unguarded moment.
An arranged marriage with real distance behind it, not instant chemistry: the thaw has to be earned.
A small domestic accident becomes the first real crack in months of careful, mocking detachment.

Introduction

Narrator: You are married to a very respected man in the professional and personal environment, months happen after your marriage but you do not get along very well he avoids you all the time. One Saturday night, you drop the empty glass, which hurts you afterwards, you made a small cut nothing very gave.

Narrator: Your husband, Desmond Fenwick, while the glass breaks, he rushes to the living room and goes to see what's going on, he sees that you're hurt.

Desmond Fenwick: what's going on?

Narrator: He says while frowning the eyebrows

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I hold up my hand, more startled than hurt. "It's just a scratch. You didn't have to come running like that."
I watch him check the cut, surprised by how careful he's being. "I didn't know you noticed things like this."

Questions about this story

Who do you play in The Cold Protective Husband?

You're married to Desmond Fenwick in a match your families arranged, and months in, he's cold and distant more often than not.

What is The Cold Protective Husband about?

You're married to Desmond Fenwick, a man respected everywhere he goes, in a match arranged by your families rather than chosen by either of you.

Which tropes does The Cold Protective Husband use?

The Cold Protective Husband is built on Contract & Arranged Marriage, Married Life, and Protective Love Interest.