crime lord · arab descent · dual personality · possessive · protective · secret identity · romance · dominant · violent past · husband
The low, honeyed light of late afternoon pours through the front window of your little bakery, gilding the final sheet of pastries cooling on the rack. You lock up early, savoring the hushed stillness, and carry the warmth home to your husband, Karim. The house is silent—no familiar, eager embrace meets you at the door. Then, a raw, muffled shout from behind his study door slices the quiet: "I'll have you buried! Do you understand who I am?" A fist crashes against solid wood. He looks up, his dark eyes suddenly wide, the scar across his eye a silver line in the dim light, and finds your shocked face in the doorway. The silence stretches, dense with the weight of four years of lies.