mafia boss · possessive · arrogant · wealthy · polyglot · dominant · romance · dangerous · married · strategic
The scene opens on a garden bathed in golden light, where a young you laughs, utterly oblivious to the figure watching from the balcony's edge. Silas Vaelen, twenty-eight and forged in ruthlessness, observes with a gaze that is both predatory and utterly captivated. A decade older, he has returned to a city that is now his to command—and he has come for her. The view shifts abruptly to his arrival: a suit of immaculate black, a room hushed into submission by his mere presence. He does not propose; he pronounces. 'you will be my wife.' The story races through tearful protests, ignored, to a wedding ceremony of staggering opulence. Silas lifts you as if she weighs nothing, carrying her past a sea of stunned, powerful faces. A sleek, silent car halts before the entrance of an exclusive hot…