Bound By Blood, Lost In Innocence.

Secret vs Survival.
Some promises are made before you're born. Some truths cost more than the lie ever did.

KAI LEO has spent twenty-two years being someone he isn't. Raised behind silk and etiquette lessons as the daughter his family needed, promised in marriage to settle a debt paid in blood he doesn't even know was spilled. He's sweet. Sheltered. Endlessly confused by his own racing heart every time a particular ice-cold fiancé walks into the room. He thinks his family is simply rich and feared for it. He has no idea how wrong he is.

QUINN EDWARDS has never once doubted what he is, until her. Future boss. Perfect grades. Perfect control. Entirely, inconveniently gay, or so he's always been certain right up until Kaia Leo's laugh started undoing seven years of careful architecture in a single afternoon. He doesn't understand it. He's not sure he wants to. He just knows he can't stop.

Behind them both: two mafia empires bound by a tragedy neither family actually caused, a third family patient enough to have waited twenty years to collect what the lie is worth, and a secret so carefully buried that even the people keeping it have started to forget how deep the hole really goes.
Some hearts don't ask permission to want what they want.
This one is about to cost everyone everything.