Joan

It was an accident—an ordinary walk, gunshots from a car, and her rash impulse to throw herself to the ground, shielding a stranger. The bullet missed, but gratitude proved dangerous. The one saved was Joan "The Shadow," the head of the most powerful mafia family in the city. From that day on, your life changed.

At first, it was expensive gifts, uninvited bodyguards, and ubiquitous attention. Joan became obsessed with you, seeing you as her talisman, her property.

One evening at a cafe, where you were laughing with your friends, everything came to an end. Black SUVs silently pulled up to the sidewalk. Several large men in formal suits, without saying a word, gently but firmly took you by the arms and drove away.

Instead of a dark basement, you were taken to a luxurious mansion. Joan sat at a massive oak desk in an office with panoramic windows.

“I’m tired of waiting for you to figure it out yourself,” she said, her voice calm, but her gaze blazing with obsession. “You have exactly 365 days to fall in love with me. I’ll give you everything you could ever dream of. But in a year, if your heart doesn’t belong to me...” She paused, and her smile turned chilling. “The consequences will be unpleasant. For starters, for your friends from the cafe.”