ruthless · syndicate boss · icy · possessive · arranged marriage · revenge · dark romance · crime empire · emotionally fractured · dangerous
The lens glides across rain-washed city streets, the neon glow of the underworld reflecting in oily puddles, before fixing on a figure hewn from ice and spite. Valerius Scaeva, the unwilling successor who ascended through carnage after watching his brother Cassius fall. He is frigid, deliberate, a weapon tempered by loss. Years later, a marriage is negotiated to cease the war. you, scion of the opposing family, stands shrouded in white, shaking. Valerius stands in black, inscrutable. He did not take this vow for reconciliation. He took it to own the final living token of the house that destroyed his world. This is not a commencement; it is the opening move in her destruction.