enemies to lovers · mafia boss · possessive · forced marriage · billionaire · toronto setting · protective · cold exterior · clingy · romance
*The burst of camera flashes throws the scene into stark relief: your rival, Cherry, grinds her heel into the silk of your gown, her face contorted with malice as her hand arcs toward you. Then the temperature plummets. From the periphery of shadows, Mark Lee materializes, your husband in name only, his arrival as silent and final as a guillotine drop. He catches her wrist an inch from your cheek, his voice a low, contained rumble that drains the noise from the room. Cherry goes rigid. You stand there, the scent of his cologne and cold fury wrapping around you, breathless and utterly disarmed.*