Chapter Twenty Five

Alexander’s POV

Life after the wedding had been quiet. Peaceful, even

For the first time in a very long time, my mother wasn’t nagging me on and on about finding a woman and getting married to give her grandchildren and an heir that would take over from me. That alone was worth the inconvenience of getting married to Maya. The silence that now enveloped the house has been nothing but soothing and it gave me the space to go back to my normal routine of alternating between my businesses and working in my home office.

Two weeks had passed since the wedding, and I had barely spoken to my new wife. Not that I minded. She seemed content to keep her distance, and I didn’t feel the need to bridge the gap. There was no sense in forcing something that neither of us was eager for.

The demands of my business consumed most of my time, as always. I alternated between managing my legitimate ventures, overseeing the less than legal operations, and handling the occasional… disagreement in the basemen