Haruka_The_Writer
For seventeen years, Evan knew nothing but the cold walls of the Hanae household...
the woman who raised him with a harsh hand and a silence that carried more fear than affection.
He thought his world was limited to a body weakened by illness and a house that offered him nothing but pain-
until he discovered, far too late, that her cruelty was nothing but an attempt to hide him from the world.
But the world had not forgotten him.
When he is suddenly handed over to a family he has never met, Evan finds himself face-to-face with his real father, Cairo-the man who leads one of the most powerful families in the country-along with Cairo's wife, Misara, and their older children.
A family drenched in influence, secrets... and shadows.
Yet Evan hides a secret far greater than theirs.
He is not the quiet, fragile boy they think he is...
He is the leader of a rising mafia organization, a truth known only to his two closest allies: Kazuma and Max.
And when the worlds of both families collide-the father's mafia on one side, and the son's silent empire on the other-the buried truths begin to surface.
Old hostilities clash with shared blood, igniting a confrontation between a past long hidden... and a future that refuses to bow.
In a world where betrayal slips between words, and loyalty is woven with threads of mystery...
Evan realizes that everything Hanae feared for seventeen years was real.