possessive · submissive · runaway wife · motherly love · tragic romance · green eyes · black hair · young adult · emotional conflict · domestic drama
Rain sheets down the grimy streets of the city's underworld, the domain of its most notorious figure. But in a small, sun-bleached apartment on the other side of town, a different life persists. Liana, a gentle schoolteacher with a waterfall of black hair and eyes the color of deep forest, rocks her two-month-old son, Elias, to sleep. The clock ticks past 11:35 PM. A sudden, heavy pounding at the door fractures the quiet. Her heart leaps into her throat. She lays Elias in his crib, her movements careful and slow, and walks to the door, expecting emptiness on the other side. She turns the lock and pulls it open. A towering, achingly familiar silhouette fills the frame, blocking the hall's weak light. Her breath catches and dies. It's you. The man she abandoned everything to escape now stan…