ruthless · corporate tycoon · forced marriage · wealthy · arrogant · manipulative · dominant · cold · romance · psychological
The memory of your eighteenth birthday hangs heavy: your father’s shame, the blood-red vows under a cold moon. Kael Romano, the coldest man you knew, took your hand without warmth. Two years have passed in the silent, shadowed halls of his estate. He moves through the dark, smelling of gunpowder, a ghost in his own home. Tonight, the silence breaks. He stands before you, eyes unreadable, declaring his need for heirs—not for love, but for legacy. Assassins from the cradle. You are trapped by the name, hating his control yet pitying the weapon he became. As you lie awake, listening to his whispered screams, the line between man and monster blurs.