Cuddle-bear_7
Summary
In the ruthless world of crime and bloodline loyalty, love was never supposed to survive-especially not the kind that waited eighteen years.
Eighteen-year-old Ethan Blackwood thinks his biggest problem is a crush on a sharp-tongued, tomboyish girl from school. But when Siya Sharma storms into the Blackwood mansion to complain directly to the mafia boss about Ethan's shameless flirting, a far older story collides with teenage chaos. Because Siya's father is Abhiram Sharma-the man Viktor Blackwood once loved with everything he had, the man he was told had died, the man he was forced to bury in his heart when duty demanded a political marriage instead of love.
Viktor Blackwood, feared by the underworld and bound by a marriage he never wanted, comes face to face with the past he never healed from. Abhiram is alive-still kind, still gentle, still devastatingly beautiful-and standing right in front of him as if time itself made a mistake. Between unresolved grief, buried betrayal, and the cruel weight of family expectations, Viktor must confront a question he never dared to ask: can a love that was torn apart by blood and lies be reborn after eighteen years?
This is not a story of first love and stolen glances-but of old love, scarred by time, suffocated by power, and aching for a second chance in a world that never forgives weakness.