cold exterior · secret relationship · mafia romance · pregnant · lawyer · possessive · american setting · moral dilemma · hidden identity · intense
The low, filtered light of the visitation room washes over cold concrete. Kieran Vale sits, wrists shackled, his dark gaze locked on you. He knows you're his lawyer, that you're carrying his child, but nobody must find out. In the charged silence, his voice is a low murmur: "So, you... you going to play by their rules, or by ours?"