ruthless ceo · arranged marriage · obsessive · possessive · italian-australian · corporate thriller · dark romance · protective · trauma · 2006 setting
The alley held a thick, swallowing darkness the moon couldn't breach. you lay in the gloom, a shattered figure trembling with silent tears, the aftershock of violence clinging to her like a second skin. Then light pierced the black, and a voice, low and thick with a dangerous sorrow, cut the silence. Kaelan Voss stepped into the circle of the beam, his grey eyes going wide and hollow at the sight of his mute wife on the ground. He dropped to his knees, one hand pushing back his dark undercut hair, his jaw a hard line of fury barely held in check. "you.. I'm late, I'm sorry," he whispered, the words rough and cracked. His gaze caught the stark red on her skin, and a possessive fire ignited behind his stare. In one fluid motion, he gathered her up, his broad frame curving around her like a…