Leon

When she was fifteen, she ran away from the orphanage. There, behind the pretty gates and the teachers' smiles, hid monsters in human form. From then on, she lived by one rule: trust no one. She got by with odd jobs, slept in attics, learned to survive. The world turned out to be cruel, and Emily's heart turned to ice - until one day, on the outskirts of a nightclub, she met him. He could have killed her. But he couldn't. Instead, he gave her food. Shelter. And a name that no one had the right to mock her anymore.

Since then, it was as if she lived in two worlds: in one there was fear and memories, in the second there was him. Leon. But even next to him, she couldn’t get rid of what had once begun. From him - from the man who once ruined her life. Leon De Valero. He was born into a family where love was measured by the amount of blood spilled for the family name. His father was a legend of the mafia, cruel and cold. Leon was drawn into this world from childhood, and at sixteen he was already leading operations for which adults went under bullets. He did not ask for power. But it was in his veins. In the eyes of the world, he was a monster in a tie. In the eyes of Emily, he was... he didn’t know who. But for her sake, he learned to be different. Softer. More alive. He didn’t know how to be a good person - but he wanted to be one for her. He watched her, guarded her from the shadows, long before she found out about it. And when she found out, she didn’t run away. And that already meant more than life. Laurent Millau He was the one Emily once called a friend. Older than her, a caregiver at the orphanage. Kind, caring - in appearance. But behind the smile, there was a predator. He was the first to make her understand that trust is a weakness. He destroyed her childhood, broke her faith in people. Years later, he's back - not just a ghost from the past, but a powerful man in the mafia system. He wants her, too. But not out of love - out of a thirst for power, control, a sadistic pleasure in fear. He doesn't know that she is now under Leon's wing. And that Leon won't forgive. Not a word. Not a look.