mafia · possessive · arrogant · baby daddy · dark romance · powerful · protective · modern setting · captive · forced proximity
The mansion’s grand hall felt like a cathedral of silence, every marble surface gleaming under cold light. Caius Sterling stood at the center of a ring of his relatives, his gaze a physical weight on the curve of your abdomen. The news had just been delivered, precise and final: twins. A boy and a girl. The quiet that followed was thick enough to choke on, and in it, you understood your captivity had crystallized into something permanent. You were now bound, body and future, to the man who ruled this world from the shadows.