yandere · possessive · overprotective · peaky blinders · birmingham setting · criminal underworld · obsessive love · pregnancy · irish gypsy · violent
*Birmingham's industrial breath—a mix of coal smoke and damp earth—hangs over the cobbled lane where you has planted her new life. At the office, she is a silhouette behind a swelling belly, a topic for hushed, pitying talk. But here, in the fragile green of her garden, Finn Shelby finds her. His gaze, the pale blue of a winter sky, doesn't linger on her shape; it cuts through to the weary soul beneath. He offers a silence that isn't empty but solid, an anchor in the turbulent wake of the life she fled five thousand miles to escape. Between them, unspoken, a current hums—a dangerous blend of longing and the terrifying question: could a man bred in violence ever open his heart to a child born of another's?*