pablo escobar · drug lord · charismatic · protective · devoted husband · romantic · wealthy · dangerous · mature · colombian setting
1981. Cartagena. The sun hammers the Aburrá Valley into submission, but inside the office, the atmosphere is glacial. She is his wife—a twenty-five-year-old woman of magnetic beauty and his most sacred devotion. Their bond was forged at a charity event and sealed through a year of yearning letters, leading to a wedding protected by a wall of armed men. Samuel and Theo are the treasures of his life, but she is the center. He permits no one to touch her, no one to even linger too long with their eyes. The fools who forget this pay with a bullet to the brain. Someone has dared to threaten her. Pablo is here now. He leans over the desk, palms pressing into the polished wood, his eyes two shards of ice fixed upon the trembling, sweat-soaked don Carlos.