LOGINCeleste Mori becomes the wife of the East Coast's most feared crime lord and tells herself she can survive the arrangement. What she can't explain is why the man beside her keeps changing, cold one morning, warm the next, different in ways she feels before she can name. The truth stops her cold. There was never one man. There were two. Twins. And both of them want to keep her. But Celeste has been underestimated by every person in that house. They were so busy keeping secrets from her that nobody noticed she was keeping score.
View MoreNico's Pov Six months after Castellano's offer, we made a public announcement.Not about the marriage specifically. But about the restructured empire. About dual leadership. About Sofia as the joint heir.The media took it and ran with it.Within days, journalists were calling. Asking questions about the "unconventional Voss family." Wanting interviews. Wanting to understand how two brothers could share power equally. How a child could have two legal fathers."We're becoming a spectacle," Eli said after the hundredth call."We're becoming visible," I corrected. "There's a difference.""Is there? Because it feels like our privacy just became public property."He was right. But the alternative was hiding. Pretending to be something we weren't. And we'd spent enough time doing that.I gave an interview to a major publication. Explained the arrangement without sensationalizing it. Talked about Sofia. About the legal precedent we'd set. About why unconventional families deserved recogniti
Celeste's Pov James Castellano approached me at a coffee shop near campus.I was studying. He just sat down across from me like we'd planned it."You're Celeste Voss," he said. Not a question."I am. And you're the man trying to destabilize my family.""I'm trying to understand it. There's a difference.""Is there?""Yes. Understanding requires genuine curiosity. Destabilization requires malice. I'm not malicious. Just observant."I closed my book. Gave him my full attention."What do you want?""To talk. To understand how this works. Three people. One family. Legally married but emotionally complicated. I'm fascinated by the mechanics.""The mechanics are private.""Everything is private until someone decides it's not. I'm offering you a chance to control the narrative before someone else does.""Why would you do that?""Because I'm not Viktor. I don't want to destroy you. I want to understand you. And maybe offer a different perspective.""Which is?""That what you've built is rema
Eli's Pov The first crack appeared when Sofia was eight months old.Not dramatic. Just small. A disagreement about something insignificant that revealed something significant underneath.Celeste wanted to hire a nanny so she could attend classes full-time. Nico wanted her home more. I thought both of them were right and neither of them were listening to each other."She's our daughter," Nico said. "She needs her mother present.""She has two fathers present. She has you. She has Eli. She doesn't need me here constantly.""We're not the same as a mother.""Why not? You're capable of doing everything I do. You're competent. You love her. Why does it have to be me specifically?""Because you carried her. Because she knows your smell. Your voice. Because you're her mother.""And you're her father. But you're working. You're absent. But somehow that's acceptable when you do it.""That's different. That's providing for the family.""So am I. I'm providing for her future. For her mother's m
Nico's Pov Three months with Sofia changed everything and nothing simultaneously.She didn't care that there were two of us. Didn't understand the complexity of the arrangement. Just wanted to be fed. Changed. Held. Comforted.In a way, she was teaching us something important: simplicity beneath complexity. Strip away all the strategy and performance and legal frameworks. What remained was just people taking care of someone who needed them.Eli was natural with her. Comfortable. He'd hold her for hours without checking his watch. Without calculating what else he should be doing.I struggled with that. I wanted to optimize the process. Create schedules. Establish efficiency."You can't optimize a baby," Celeste told me. "She's not a business problem to solve. She's just a person who needs attention.""I know that.""Do you? Because you're treating her like a project with deliverables.""I'm trying to be involved. To do my part.""Then do your part without trying to control it. Hold he






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