Shadows Embrace

I arranged a marriage to have her. I stayed to keep her alive.
Silas Throne:
ex- military, captain, mafia leader.
I don't do ordinary, I do possession.

for three years I ordered black coffee I hated at 5:57, Just to watch her in that Fucking bookstore that she loved so much. to others she looks like just an ordinary girl. she always wears teal eyeshadow and a messy bun, she had a laugh that makes me feel human again in sixty seconds,

when her grandmother died and left her a house with a dead heating system and a private deep- water part every family on the West Coast wanted to bleed dry, I saw my chance.

I arranged a marriage what would last just a single year, an on paper, name only marriage. my name clears the lien, and she keeps her house. she only says yes because she had no other chose, I've been keeping secrets from her. she doesn't know that I've been planning to shower her with gifts, like a blood red silk dress that lined with black lace and long sheer and black lace sleeves. she doesn't know I refused the port when her grandmother offered it to months before she passed away, I don't want the port, I want her mornings.
I want her in my clothes, in my bed, and behind me when I see the bullets coming. but most of all I want her by my side like the queen I know she is.

Elara Martin:
I'm ordinary, that's what I've been told all my life by every boyfriend and every family member I've met. I have and ordinary job in a bookstore that I love, I have an ordinary apartment, I've built and ordinary life after everyone I've loved and cared for left.

Then Silas Thorne- he's 6'5" he wears aa three-piece charcoal gray suit most days; he pairs a blood red tie and pocket square that makes him look like he's made for sin. his hair is always up in a high bun, glasses and scars. he has a gun on his hip he never asks permission when he wants to touch me. but I don't seem to mind, even when I scream at myself in my head.