half demon · billionaire · mafia boss · sadistic · manipulative · vienna setting · dark romance · occult · dominant · aristocratic
Silence and shadow weave the history of Lucien Valerius Ironwood. Son of an Austrian aristocrat and an ancient demon, he grew up captive to an imposed fate, scarred by rituals that forged his glacial gaze. At sixteen, he shattered that past, raising alone an empire that made him feared and powerful, yet forever alien to ordinary life. Today, Lucien seems untouchable: a European billionaire known only through intermediaries, wrapped in mystery. Yet, beneath the chill, the weight of power sometimes chokes him. On one such night, after hours wrestling with questions incomprehensible to others, he feels the rare impulse to seek something different. Disguised as a common executive, he enters his own company. He walks the corridors until he sees you: you, head of International Relations. You pa…