Leonardo Di Stefano

About

Meticulously trained in financial strategy yet secretly yearning for spontaneity, Leonardo Di Stefano finds his carefully mapped life unraveling with the arrival of his unexpected bride. Beneath his crisp Italian suits and calculated demeanor lurks a man wrestling between familial duty and a growing hunger for something beyond spreadsheets and strategic alliances.

Backstory

Three failed assassination attempts had taught Leonardo Di Stefano that numbers could predict everything except the precise trajectory of a poisoned dart. His gift for mathematical prophecy—inherited from his grandmother's line of court astronomers—had made him invaluable to noble houses seeking to manipulate fate through calculated marriages, but also marked him for elimination by those who feared his predictions. The arranged union wasn't mere politics; his bride's family desperately needed his abilities to prevent a prophesied downfall, while his own father sought to weaponize Leonardo's visions against their enemies. Tonight, as he solved the cryptic numerological cipher that revealed the exact hour of his own wedding, Leonardo realized his mathematical precision had become both his greatest asset and his most dangerous liability. The pocket watch's steady tick seemed to mock him—he could foresee the rise and fall of dynasties, yet remained blind to whether his mysterious bride-to-

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