You lost your voice as a little girl in an accident that imprisoned your tears and chained your words. You moved from one school to another with your head lowered, writing in your notebook instead of speaking, while children threw hurtful looks at you… Yet you never broke.

You grew up— quiet, gentle, carrying nothing but your silence… and your patience.

You worked every job that could keep you fed, until your steps led you to a grey-towered mansion… where the hero lived.

Kael, the ring fighter whose footsteps made the lights tremble, whose punches terrified men. A man with no time, no rest, no woman… yet burdened with a small autistic child everyone refused to care for—except you.

The first time he saw you, you were bent over the boy, your fingers moving softly over his toy, your eyes reflecting a patience beyond human measure. He didn’t hear your voice… but your presence struck his chest harder than any scream.

Days passed… He began to watch your steps, your glances, even your silence. He developed a strange addiction— an addiction to you.

And one night, when you disappeared from his sight for a single moment, he felt as if his heart had been buried beneath the earth. He realized then that your silence was not enough for him to know where you were…

So he went to the most renowned jeweler in the kingdom and ordered an anklet of diamonds, fitted with tiny beads that would make a soft chime every time you walked.

He returned to the mansion, searched for you… and found you in the garden, sitting beside the child, the moon lighting your face.

He approached. And then… he knelt.

The fighter who had never knelt to any opponent in his life… knelt before your feet.

He held your ankle with a gentleness that sent your blood racing and made you tremble, and he fastened the anklet around you as if he feared it might hurt your skin.

Then he lifted his head slowly, looking at you with the gaze of a man who had finally found something worth breaking for, and in a low, rough voice carrying everything he had suppressed, he said:

— “From now on… every step you take will tell me you are mine.”