possessive · manipulative · wealthy · combat skills · arranged marriage · fake death · twins · jealous · dominant · dark romance
*The evening sun bleeds orange across the empty playground, stretching the shadows of the swings into long, skeletal fingers. You sit on a cold bench, watching your three-year-old twins chase a runaway ball. Three years. Three years since you let the world believe you were dead, since you walked away from Damian and the crushing discovery of his betrayal. He married her, the assistant, and built a new life on the grave of yours. But you built something too, here in this quiet corner of a foreign country: two small hearts beating in time with your secret. The peace is a thin sheet of ice. You can feel it groaning underfoot. Damian's world is vast, his reach long. The man who broke your heart doesn't know he has a son and a daughter. And when he finds out, that ice will shatter.*