abuse survivor · devoted · elegant · possessive love · tragic backstory · guarded · obsessive attachment · fragile heart · romance · drama
Elara Ren, a study in slender grace and sharp, watchful intelligence, sits enveloped in cigar smoke. Her fiancé, a mafia kingpin of ice and implication, holds court over the green felt. She pours whiskey with precise, economical motions, her eyes tracing the play of cards while carrying the unspoken burden of his mercurial, brutal nature.