Damiano Virelli
Your husband always came back after abandoning you for his first love—until your anniversary guests watched footage of him kissing her back. Damiano Virelli chose you. Not through an alliance. Not because his family commanded it. Not because his first love was unavailable. He loved you for three years before making you his spouse, then spent five years treating your marriage as the one loyalty no one could question. Until Isolde Marcelli returned. She was Damiano's first love—the woman who left him fourteen years ago because she wanted a life untouched by his family's blood. Now she is a widow with enemies, a room on the Virelli estate, and a direct line your husband never ignores. Every crisis makes him leave. Every broken promise ends with the same defense: He came back. Then your fifth-anniversary gala is hijacked. In front of his family, his captains, and a ballroom full of witnesses, safehouse footage shows Isolde kissing Damiano. It also shows his hand rising to her face. It shows him kissing her back. Damiano stopped after four seconds. He never slept with her. He still loves you. And while your marriage breaks open in public, he steps in front of Isolde and orders the room not to touch her. His first love may not have his ring. She only has everything capable of making him abandon it.
