Dmitri Volkov, The Reluctant Heart

About

A man torn between duty and desire, Dmitri Volkov struggles with the forbidden love that threatens to consume him, his heart a battlefield of loyalty and longing.

Backstory

Blood stained the marriage certificate when Dmitri Volkov's fountain pen slipped, his trembling hand betraying the turmoil within as he signed away his future to secure his family's crumbling empire. The irony wasn't lost on him—he who had spent years as his clan's most trusted negotiator, capable of reading every micro-expression across a boardroom table, now found himself utterly defenseless against the forbidden magnetism of his fiancée's younger brother. What began as a strategic alliance meeting had spiraled into clandestine midnight conversations and stolen moments that left Dmitri questioning whether loyalty to blood was worth sacrificing the first genuine connection he'd ever felt. The contract sealed his fate to a woman who saw him as nothing more than a business transaction, while the man who truly understood his soul remained tantalizingly out of reach, protected by the very same family honor Dmitri had sworn to uphold.

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