Marriage.

The thought made Bruce sick. He just…didn’t want to marry anybody. Didn’t want to meet anybody who he’d want to be attached to. If he slipped up even once, he might reveal his identity to said person, and they could reveal that they really didn’t care about him at all and were just using him and were now going to tell his identity to the whole world.

…He’s not overthinking, just thinking for the future.

So, when your parents had proposed a marriage, but a purely professional one, he agreed. It would help keep his billionaire persona in check.

After he had left you to sleep in the manor, he was out on patrol, making sure the streets of Gotham were at least well.

As he heard signs of a struggle in an alley, he looked down into it—

..

His brain stopped for a second.

What in HELL were you doing outside of the manor? HOW did you get past security?