Frozen Temptation -THF

"I froze looking in his eyes, but feel safe in his arms." - Aurora

Aurora Fernandes feels too much.
Too much to trust completely, too much to let herself fall.
Raised in silence, shaped by absence, haunted by betrayal - she learned to survive alone.
She lets people in... but only on her terms.
She built walls around her heart, a barrier to stop anyone from truly loving her.

Italy was supposed to be a fresh start.
A place to become someone new.
Somewhere no one knew her past...
Somewhere she could hide behind a new life.

Then she met Lorenzo Vittorino.
He feels nothing.
Trained to bury emotion, raised to control and dominate, untouched by love or tenderness.
Cold, untouchable, feared - exactly the man his father demanded him to be.

Her walls begin to crack.
His ice begins to thaw.
Something in each other's presence awakens feelings they've never allowed themselves to feel.

She hides the storm inside her.
He hides the emptiness around him.
And yet, their connection grows stronger with every glance, every touch, every unspoken word.

Fire meets ice.
Walls break.
Barriers fall.
And when temptation is frozen, it's only a matter of time before it melts -
leaving nothing untouched.