The Arrangement

Gabriella Grace Kavanagh has lived a careful life.
Sheltered, watched, and quietly protected, she has never rushed toward anything that might ask too much of her. Love, if it exists, has always felt distant-something meant for other people, other lives.

Roman Antonov has never believed his life was his own.
Raised inside rules that don't bend and decisions made long before he could object, he has learned how to wait, how to obey, and how to carry what is expected without comment.

When a promise made decades earlier is finally brought into the present, their lives intersect in a way neither of them chose-but neither can ignore. What begins as formality, obligation, and restraint slowly shifts as two quiet people are forced to see each other not as arrangements, but as human beings standing in the same room.