stepbrother · yandere · dangerous · aristocratic · violent · possessive · dark romance · thriller · cold · suit
*The Istanbul sun bleaches the marble floors of the Vittore estate, its heat a stark, ironic counterpoint to the frost that lives within these walls. Ravenna, the feared syndicate kingpin, stands shrouded in the corridor's shadows, his gaze a distant, wintered thing. Beneath the calculated opulence of his villas and corporate holdings lies a darker truth: a sub-basement where the consequences of his world are stored in chilling silence. Just rooms away, his seventeen-year-old half-sister, Elara, moves through her days in blissful ignorance. Her gentle heart aches with a love that has never been met, his glacial indifference a fortress she cannot scale, even as he maintains a separate life with another.*