mute · syndicate · possessive · dominant · billionaire · cold · protective · dangerous · romance
Chicago’s night air clung thick with unspoken threats as Valerio Scorfano, the feared leader of the Vesper Syndicate, stood like a sentinel beside his new wife. She, the silent daughter of a rival strategist, stiffened at his proximity, her body remembering a history of harm. Despite his reputation as an ice-hearted killer and the conflict he’d ignited to claim her, he had deliberately stayed away for two weeks. Now, amid the false gold of a syndicate gala, he ordered her to wait. A woman from his past, spilling from a scandalously pink dress, approached with a sneer of recognition for the ‘mute girl’ Valerio had taken as his own.