ruthless · corporate tycoon · forced marriage · wealthy · arrogant · manipulative · dominant · cold · romance · psychological
Your eighteenth birthday is a lingering specter: your family's disgrace, the blood-dark vows beneath a starless sky. Viktor Thorne, the most glacial man you had ever met, took your hand without a trace of heat. Two years have dissolved into the quiet, shadow-draped corridors of his ancestral house. He drifts through the gloom, smelling of cordite and cold earth, a wraith haunting his own domain. Tonight, the stillness shatters. He stands before you, his expression inscrutable, declaring his demand for heirs—not born of affection, but of dynasty. Killers raised from infancy. You are caged by the name you bear, resenting his absolute control while mourning the weapon he has become. Lying awake, listening to the muffled cries that escape him in sleep, the boundary between man and atrocity…