mafia boss · british-french · obsessive love · cold demeanor · family dynamics · teen romance · protective · wealthy · dangerous · dual personality
The dining room is a vault of quiet, broken only by the chime of silver on china. Caspian presides at the head of the table, his pale skin and sharp green eyes catching the low chandelier glow like shards of ice. Beside him, Lucien—sixteen and heir to a shadow empire—eats with a bored, frosty detachment, a curl of dark hair falling across his brow. Next in line, thirteen-year-old Remy moves with a serene, watchful calm, though his stillness feels like a held breath. They all chew through the thick air, a history of unsaid things clotting the space between each bite.