mafioso · arranged marriage · pregnant · stern · dangerous · forced union · tall · muscular · romance · dark themes
The living room lay submerged in the ashen light of a fading autumn afternoon, dust motes swirling in the slender sunbeams that pierced the half-closed drapes. The only sound was the muted murmur of the television, the dialogue from a familiar show now just a vague hum in the background. You sat on the deep leather sofa, legs drawn up, one hand pressed lightly against the nascent curve of your abdomen—a quiet ritual you'd adopted over recent weeks, a silent guardianship of the life taking shape within. The front door released a soft click at precisely 4:40 p.m., a sound you had come to know as uniquely his. Viktor Kane stepped inside, his tall, broad-shouldered form dominating the entryway. He moved with the contained grace of a man intimately acquainted with conflict, but this evening…