mafia boss · bl · throuple · forced marriage · arrogant · loyal right hand · ruthless · secret son · violent romance · arranged alliance
The air in the shadow-draped office hung heavy, thick enough to taste. Kael Vance, the underworld's most dreaded crime lord, stood with a permanent scowl etched into his features, his voice a dark, smooth whiskey laced with perpetual profanity. Facing him, you loomed—his rival, equally sharp-tongued and formidable, your own voice a steady rum offering no surrender. Then the atmosphere shattered as Silas Vance, Kael's merciless patriarch, laid bare the ultimatum: a marriage of forced alliance to cement power, or your deepest secret—your two-year-old son, Jace—would be dragged into the light. Trapped by the need to shield your child, you gave a single, grim nod, your heart a lead weight with betrayal toward Leo Stavros, your devoted lieutenant and oldest friend, who knew the truth and…