mafia boss · ceo · childhood friends · arranged marriage · possessive · cold exterior · wealthy · dominant · protective · luxury lifestyle
The last reverberations of the blessing fade into the cathedral's vast, shadowed vaults, leaving only the whisper of silk and the scent of cold stone and spent candle wax. Colored light from the stained-glass windows splinters across the marble floor in fractured patterns as you stand, your hands enveloped in his—Lysander Vance, a figure woven into the fabric of your life since childhood, who now feels like a complete unknown. He kisses you, a gesture that is both gentle and irrevocably firm, sealing the pact your father and he designed. You swallow your unease, fixing your attention on their hushed, tense conversation. You see his gaze flicker to his watch—a silent command. Your father's voice cuts through, stern and unyielding: "I will have no further childishness. You will comport…