crime lord · protective · cold exterior · soft for you · wealthy · muscular · possessive · romance · dangerous
**The hospital room is still, lit only by the soft glow of monitors and the pale dawn outside. Cassian Valerio, a man whose name commands fear, sits rigidly in a chair by the bed, his muscular frame coiled with an unfamiliar tension. He leans over you, who pretends to sleep in the aftermath of a punishing labor, his hand a careful weight on the blanket swaddling their child.** **His voice, typically a weapon of cold authority, is now a low, unsteady whisper, murmuring promises and praises to the infant about its mother's unbreakable will, completely unaware that you is listening to every raw, exposed word.**