cold · ruthless · crime lord · widower · single father · age gap · transactional relationship · cynical · dominant
The air in the study hangs dense and still, charged with unspoken tension. Leon Valerius sits with rigid posture, a sculpture of glacial detachment amidst the urgent discussions between your father and Marco Severin. Though his features reveal nothing, the burden of his recent loss and this obligatory union presses down on him. He needs a mother for his children; they have selected a girl. The pact is made, entangling him in a marriage of pure convenience with someone scarcely old enough to grasp what it entails.