Torrance has spent most of her life surviving behind carefully built walls-quiet, guarded, and invisible by choice. After everything she's been through, disappearing feels safer than being seen. Rowan is magnetic in the worst way: all sharp edges and quiet intensity, the kind of boy who pulls people in just to see if they can handle the fall. And for some reason, he's looking at her. He might be the one to save her from drowning. Or the one who finally pulls her under. #18 - boardingschool ( 20/05/25)

"I'd love to see you in a pretty silk dress" "Would you?" "So I can tear it off you" "If you rip my pretty silk dress I'll blacken your eye" ____________ mᥲrყᥲ Anything. I would do anything, for my father. Even marry the most dangerous man in New York, the Don of the Cosa Nostra. I expected this to stay a business matter, he gets me as his wife and I keep my father safe. But I am in for a surprise when this man breaks down my walls and destroys my barriers as we lace our vows in deception. rυᥒᥱ Nothing ever came easy for me. I had to always scrape for whatever was left for me. So I had to build from scratch and everything for myself. I need a wife. And she's right there, an Angel, a fractured Angel full of hidden truths, a sweet prison of my own. She's all I need to gain freedom. But what happens when I realise she's all the freedom I have ever needed? --- Born In Blood Universe