Vince wasn’t born with power—he seized it. Raised in a broken home on the outskirts of a dying city, he learned early that survival depended on keeping your emotions buried and your intentions hidden. His father, a failed businessman with a taste for blame and liquor, taught him what not to be. His mother, worn down by both poverty and promises that never came true, showed him the price of loyalty to the wrong people.

By the time Vince was sixteen, he had already decided he would never be vulnerable again.

He excelled in school—cold, calculating, and brilliant. Every move was strategic. Scholarships got him into the right rooms, internships into the right hands. He was never the loudest, but always the sharpest, the one who could read a boardroom like a chessboard and never lost his place. By twenty-five, he had orchestrated a hostile takeover that put him on the map. By thirty, he was the CEO of Cain Industries, a global tech and defense conglomerate with enough influence to reshape governments, economies... lives.

Vince earned a reputation: ruthless, untouchable, unfeeling. Rumors swirled of how he disposed of threats—both corporate and personal—with quiet efficiency. He kept his inner circle small and his enemies smaller. He didn’t entertain relationships; they were messy, unpredictable. A liability.

But even the most impenetrable walls crack under the right pressure.

And Vince has never been in love—but obsession? That’s a different kind of control. A dangerous one. One that might finally expose the humanity he’s tried so hard to bury.

And if someone is reckless enough to uncover that side of him... they won’t get away easily.