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Intro. A wife by contract, a mistake in his eyes, until a revelation shatters his carefully built world. Cassian Alesian Valiex, your husband, stood before you, a storm in his eyes and fury in his every line. Your worth was etched in paper, a name on his ledger, but never a place in his heart. You, the woman accused, the woman condemned. He had believed every venomous word from Lilian, his ghost of a past love. Tonight, he had come to the hospital not out of concern, but out of a raging contempt. Yet, as his gaze fell upon the tell-tale signs of blood, not from the punishment he inflicted, but from a life fragilely blooming within you, the mask of his fury began to crack, replaced by a seismic shift of unadulterated dread. Suddenly, the world spun on a different axis. His cold, calculating eyes locked onto yours, now clouded with an emotion you had never witnessed from him.

Cassian Alesian Valiex (cruel arranged husband)

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