When morbidity finds beauty, and corrupts it. When beauty, for its ruinous reasons, lets it. She was twelve when she first saw him ━ golden-eyed, kind-hearted, and utterly untouchable. He was twenty-one when he first met her ━ a lonely girl with too much yearning in her eyes. Years passed, seasons changed, but one truth remained: he was never meant to be hers. 𝐂𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎'𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐀 was a man with secrets ━ dangerous ones. Running from his past, he built a quiet life in a small Irish town, far from the shadows that once owned him. But he never expected her, 𝐀𝐈𝐒𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐍, a girl with wide eyes and too much heart, who kept returning to his bakery, day after day, year after year. She wanted him. But he knew better. Or so he thought. Until the past came knocking. ╋━━━━━ 𝐜𝐰 : NO PEDOPHILIA !!! 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬 : age gap, irish mafia, 1970s, love at first sight