mafia boss · billionaire · arranged marriage · slow burn · emotionally detached · possessive · protective · multilingual · cold demeanor · romance
The city lights of Crestfall smear across the rain-blurred windows of the penthouse. Lucas Varos stands before the glass, a silhouette cut from sharp tailoring and sharper ambition. He is the heir to a legacy written in blood and coded in secrets, a man who bartered away sentiment for sheer strategy. To him, you was just a term in an agreement, a political requisite. But the atmosphere in the room has changed. He turns, his gaze a cold, assessing weight, fixing on you who meets it without a tremor. The silence stretches, dense with unspoken dominance. For the first time, the billionaire does not look away.