Mine, whether you like it or not

Character sketch

AJ – Full Name: Ava James

At 23 years old and barely 5 feet 3 inches tall, AJ often went unnoticed in a room until she spoke. At nine, she lost everything her home, her mother, her sense of safety all in one brutal stroke of fate. A child caught in the crossfire of someone else’s guilt, she was forced to flee her hometown after an accident that would haunt her for a lifetime. She bore not just emotional scars, but the physical remnants of a fire that left her back and gluteal region marked for life. Brave didn’t even begin to describe her. She endured it all with quiet resilience that no child should ever have to muster.

Sent away to London to escape the shadows of her past, AJ was meant to heal but fate wasn’t done testing her. At just twelve, while under the care of others, her last shred of innocence was ripped away by the very people meant to protect her. And yet, despite the layers of trauma and silence, she survived. She stitched her broken pieces back together, one breath at a time, and rose again.

Now, in her early twenties, she is pursuing her master’s degree in Architecture a field that, like her soul, believes in rebuilding beauty from wreckage. Her face rarely smiles, her voice rarely trembles, and her walls stand taller than any cathedral she may one day design. But even in her silence, there is strength. In her stillness, a storm.

To the world, AJ is just another girl walking the crowded streets of London. But to Rhys Ivan Black, she is everything his guilt, his ruin, his redemption, his forever.

She is the girl who never asked to be a symbol of someone else’s regret, but became it anyway.
The girl who was hurt, broken, and stripped of so much yet lives on.

Strong. Quiet. Unforgiving.
Beautiful like a winter morning cold, quiet, and achingly breathtaking.

She doesn’t need a savior.
She needs peace.
And perhaps, a reason to smile again.

" "If hating you is a crime then I’ll gladly be a criminal, because your entire family , your perfect, polished Black family ruined me, sent me away like trash, branded my scars with your name, and taught me that apologies are nothing but sugar-coated lies, so don’t you dare come near me with your guilt or your pity, Rhys, because I don’t want it I want distance, I want silence, I want nothing to do with you or anyone who shares your blood."

~ Ava James

Rhys Ivan Black

Twenty-six years old. Six feet two inches of silent dominance wrapped in designer suits and dangerous intentions.

The youngest CEO in the Black empire handpicked by his father not because of trust, but because no one else had the guts to do what Rhys would. power wasn’t handed to him. He earned it, clawed through fire for it, and made sure no one ever forgot his name.

Ruthless when needed. Calculated always.

He didn’t speak much, but when he did, people listened. And when he entered a room, silence followed.

Women noticed him. Men feared him. His enemies called him unhinged. His father called him an Achievement. But Rhys didn’t care. He never played by the rules.

He made them.

Cold, sharp, unpredictable. He could negotiate a billion-dollar deal in the boardroom by morning and pull a trigger by night without flinching.

He ruled boardrooms by day, but his thoughts never left her. AJ.

He had loved her since childhood. Not the kind of love that faded with time, but the kind that twisted into obsession deeper, darker, and consuming. She was the only softness in his world of steel. The only reason he ever felt human.

But when they tried to take her away, to marry her off like she was a pawn in their games, something inside Rhys snapped.

He wasn’t going to lose her. Not to fate. Not to Xander. Not even to his father.

Because AJ wasn’t just someone he loved.

She was his.

And Rhys Ivan Black never loses what’s his.

"Scream at me, hate me, curse me all you want but don’t you dare say you don’t feel anything because I’ve loved you since we were kids, you were mine before you even knew what love was, and now after holding you, touching you, breathing you in for two whole nights, you think I’ll just let you go? never, AJ, because if anyone else even dares to look at you, I swear I’ll burn this entire world down to keep you with me."

~ Rhys Ivan Black

First of all don't think this novel as of typical obsession. The ML is obsessed? Yes. But his demonstration of obsession is different. There wouldn't be any r*ape scene. There wouldn't be any forced scene like you see in other books, even you read in my book possession. Uhmm... There is 1-2 scenario but it's different. Rhys is a sane man but twisted in his own way. He loves AJ so obviously all he will try is winning her heart. So it's basically a novel of Rhys's struggle to earn AJ's love.

Give it a try. You will like it!

Tropes:
Arranged Marriage,
Enemies to obsession
Obsessed ML
Possessive Love
Trauma Bond
Redemption Arc
Second Chance Romance
Bharpur smuts
Surprise Pregnancy

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