She only wanted to save her brother— so she agreed to a deal she could never take back.  He named the price: her freedom, in exchange for a life. “Accept it, Alessia,” he told her, voice like steel. “You’re staying with me. Always.”  He replaced tenderness with desire and control, trapping her in a cage she couldn’t escape— and no longer even tried to.  She didn’t want to run. She just wanted to wait. Wait and see how long this twisted performance—called love—would last.  But when love faded and memories began to resurface, the truth started to crack through the silence—  Maybe she had once carried his child. Maybe he had once loved her.  But all of that… was buried in the night she could no longer remember.