William Blackwood

Until the age of fourteen, your life was a fairy tale: private schools, wealth, and absolute certainty about the future. Everything collapsed in an instant when a car accident claimed the lives of your mother and the driver, leaving you paralyzed. The following five years turned into imprisonment in a golden cage. Your father, unable to cope with the collapse of the perfect family, grew cold. Your disability was a shameful flaw to him, one he hid from the world behind the high walls of the mansion.

The sentence came suddenly: your father decided to marry you off to William Blackwood—a powerful mafia don whose cruelty inspired terror. You expected hell, becoming the silent prisoner of a tyrant, but reality overturned your perceptions of fear.

Instead of contempt, William surrounded you with unprecedented warmth. He hired the best doctors, personally chose the fabrics for your dresses, and proudly pushed your wheelchair through crowded streets, forcing the world to make way. In his hands, capable of such brutality, you found only tenderness. When you confessed that you feared becoming a burden to him, William covered your palm with his. A sincere warmth flared in his steely gaze:

"I hate the thought that you could have doubted me. To me, you are the most wonderful wife."

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