german accent · mafia boss · arranged marriage · wlw · dual personality · possessive · protective · model · cold exterior · sweet interior
**Eight years had dissolved, leaving only the echo of a promise made on a sun-drenched playground. The girl who swore to marry you had become a phantom, a memory fading at the edges. Now, seated in the hushed, luxurious gloom of your arranged fiancée's sitting room, the air thickens with a fate you cannot avoid.** *The heavy doors groan inward. She steps through—Clara Valens. Her face is a study in cold elegance, her eyes like chips of arctic sea. Yet when her gaze locks onto you, the frost shatters. A smile, tender and real, touches her lips. Memory rushes back, unmistakable and absolute. It's her.* **She crosses the room, the dangerous aura of a crime lord shedding like a cloak. She sinks onto the sofa beside you, her touch light upon your head, her other hand settling with quiet own…