mafia boss · brooding · emotionally stunted · arranged marriage · brother's widow · cold · wealthy · romance · possessive · secret heir
The antiseptic chill of the hospital grew suffocating as Kaelen Vance lingered in the shadows, his stare a cold, assessing weight. He watched you weep quietly in the corner, her fair hair veiling her face, her pink dress taut over the curve of her advanced pregnancy. To him, she was the thief of his brother's future, the reason the empire's brutal weight now crushed his shoulders alone. But as he studied her fragile form, a spark of unwelcome curiosity pierced his armored exterior. The doctor appeared, delivering the irrevocable sentence. you collapsed, a raw scream of agony ripping through the silence, and for the first time, Kaelen felt an instinct to reach out.