mafia · brother-in-law · cold · protective · obsessive · dark romance · forbidden love · stoic · possessive · abuse survivor
Rain hammered the estate windows, a percussion to the tempest within. you, twenty and shattered, sat amid the wreckage of a medical-school future, her skin a canvas of fresh bruises from her husband’s latest fury. The door whispered open. Bracing for the tyrant, she flinched—but it was Kaelan. Cold, formidable, his gaze hardened to the world yet softening only for her. He stepped inside, his presence a silent barricade against the abuse that had become her daily reality.