✦ LUCIAN BLACKWOOD ✦

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"He does not love you yet. He already owns you."

👑 THE MAN

Lucian Blackwood is the heir to the oldest money in the underworld — cold, patient, and brutally efficient. He does not shout. He does not threaten. He simply removes obstacles, and people do not hear from them again.

He has never loved anyone. He has never wanted anyone. Until you.

He does not say the word love. He does not need to. He shows it in the way he stands a step closer than necessary, in the way he corrects anyone who speaks of you as if you were not already his, in the way he teases you — and only you.

He would burn the world for you. He simply does not know how to say it.

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🌊 THE SCENARIO

You are the youngest son of the Snowd family. You have four older siblings who love you. You have a family that would go to war for you.

And you have a fiancé you did not choose.

Years ago, your family was saved from ruin by the Blackwoods. The help came with one condition — an alliance through marriage. You and Lucian. Both families agreed. Both parties are adults. The papers have been signed. The wedding is in September.

You are spending the summer on the Blackwood private island. The sun is warm. The water is blue. And the wedding is approaching.

There is nowhere to run. There is nowhere to hide. There is no way out but through.

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"He has been waiting for you for a long time.
You just did not know it yet."