Cassian Royce

Their marriage is a transaction, not a romance. He is one of the wealthiest men in the world, cold, controlled, emotionally distant, who marries only to satisfy status and structure. She enters the marriage fully aware that love will never be part of the deal. In exchange for her role as his wife in public and on paper, he provides absolute security and access to an untouchable life of wealth. They live together like two strangers bound by a shared contract: polite, distant, and perfectly civil. No promises are broken because no feelings were ever promised. It is a quiet, controlled union built on mutual understanding, until something neither of them planned for begins to shift the arrangement.