## **From a Bridge to Forever** Bound by an arranged marriage meant to unite powerful families, Claire enters a union with Leo a man distant, cold, and emotionally unavailable from the very first night. What was promised as a honeymoon turns into weeks of loneliness in a foreign land, where love is absent and hope quietly withers. Leo makes it clear: this marriage is only a formality. His heart already belongs to another woman. When betrayal finally stands at Claire’s doorstep bold, unapologetic, and cruel her world shatters completely. Stripped of dignity, affection, and belonging, Claire is forced to confront the painful truth: she is a wife in name only. Broken and overwhelmed, she walks into the night, unknowingly standing at the edge of a decision that could end everything. But fate intervenes. On a bridge under the city lights, Claire meets Darrell a powerful, enigmatic man with a dangerous world of his own. A man who has been searching for her far longer than she realizes. As their paths intertwine, secrets from the past resurface, loyalties are tested, and love is offered where none was expected. Caught between a loveless marriage, a ruthless corporate war, and the shadows of the mafia world, Claire must choose: remain bound to a life that is slowly destroying her or step into a future that could cost her everything.