Carlos was born to a woman who worked at a glitzy hostess bar working as a cleaner. She was pumped and dumped by patriarch of Romanov who already was married and had children. So that lady decides to quit working at that bar and worked other jobs and gave birth to Carlos who unfortunately had a mental problem affecting his emotions. Debt and medical expenses pushed Carlos's mom into early grave. Soon Carlos was roaming around the streets and end up at casino and lucky for Carlos, he's a natural genius and was soon noticed by Romanov patriarch and took him under his wing and taught him and made him part of his organization cleaning up the mess and all. He was never meant to be kept for long and soon the patriach set Carlos in a trap meant to eliminate him but he managed to beat up the people sent to kill him and was revealed that it's the patriarch who wanted hi dead and when Carlos confronted him, Patriarch revealed that he's a stain that's meant to be cleaned up after he raped his mom (exact words spoken in black black heart, scenario felt more like pump and dump to me rather than feeling like SA, but then again, par for the course, desnt matter that lady faced something horrible) and Carlos is enraged and offed the entire family and took over the role as the head of Romanov.
Later on he met Misha (who's the birth mom of Alexi, btw Misha is a man and omega, curse the omegaverse) who obviously WAS NOT into Carlos and he's already into Feliks but Carlos met with Misha's parents and they forced Misha to break off with Feliks and marry Carlos and he's NOT happy about it and so is Feliks who thought Carlos stole Misha from him and vowed revenge. Anyway marriage comes and for a while things are going pretty great (except for Misha who'll act up, but credit where due, Carlos did his part as loving husband and treated him with care) and soon Alexi was born and Carlos was bonding rather well with his son and this causes Misha to get upset (Post-partum stress and depression, dont make fun of preggy stuff) thinking that Carlos abandoned him and only used him for baby and rift started to form and by this time, Feliks reentered into Misha's life and they bonded as friends and Feliks started feeding him poison words about Carlos in hope that Misha would break off with him and come to Feliks.
By this time, Feliks already married and had a child, who was Lean, but got mixed up with someone else's family and that family's baby ended up with Feliks. Lean now grew up in the household set in this story and yeah Feliks's spouse passed away early on. Anyway soon Misha is now starting to rekindle his feelings for Feliks and Carlos got wind of it but looked the other way as the believed Misha wont do any harm and is content so long as Misha was beside him. That trust broke when Misha and Feliks planned to run away and Misha took Alexei with him to cafe and abandoned him in the store while he ran away with Feliks. Alexei almost got run over trying to chase after Misha (who was 5 at the time). Seeing that Misha not only abandoned Alexei but even willing to let him in the path of danger just for his past love broke Carlos's heart and became twisted and hard-hearted and cursed bonding and all and raised Alexei as cold-hearted bastard. Seeing that Carlos would retaliate, Feliks repeatedly launched preemptive attacks towards Carlos and his son who now also chose the path of revenge and decided to destroy Feliks the same way he did to them
Misha felt pretty bad about abandoning Alexei and is now aware that he burned the bridge of any reconciliation and asked Feliks not to target them for his protection sake and Feliks agree but that doesnt mean he tried to meddle. He set up Maxim as Alexei's lover trying to infiltrate and series of events unfolded which got Alexei into life-threatening situation. When Misha got to learn what Feliks did, he slapped him and fight broke between them. However this is soon overshadowed by the fact that the son Feliks thought he sired turned out to be someone else (ie) The children were mixed at birth and Feliks got to learn about it and so is that child (who has warm blond hair, i believe) who apparently walked out and is now decided to come in contact with Lean's family as some sort of associate of sort. He apparently made some deals with Romanov. Meanwhile, Lean's family apparently got into debt is now facing bankruptcy and the only lifeline is Romanov. Apparently Carlos had some sort of suspicion and made deal with that blondie to retrieve sample from Lean to test whether he's truly Feliks son and lo and behold he is!!
Carlos planned that holding Lean as hostage would ensure that Feliks wont act up as he knows Feliks already knows about baby switch and is looking for Lean and decided to use Lean as part of his revenge to get back at Feliks and also to get a heir (his grandchild) and so he proposed a deal with Lean to marry Alexei who was sick and sire him a baby and he'll clear the debt and so facing no choice as he wanted to help his family, he agreed and he married Alexei on paper
Carlos sent him into room where Alexei was recovering from that attack orchestrated by Feliks. Due to influence of pheromones and such, Lean fell for Alexei and did the deed with unconscious Alexei but immediately ran away as he felt bad about doing something such thing. All of this was recorded secretly which would come to haunt Lean. Anyway Alexei woke up and learned that his father hitched him to Lean and is pissed (cuz he recently broke up with Maxim) and is not willing to cooperate. He treated Lean like he's a leech but not too badly. But soon things took turn for worse as Carlos demanded Lean a heir and threatened to show recordings. Lean begged Carlos not to do it as he's already being treated badly and wanted to survive. But Carlos pulled contract card and shut Lean up. Meanwhile the recorded incident was shown to Alexei by red haired guy (he aint no saint, sure he treated Lean good, but he looked the other way when Alexei and Carlos abused Lean, an enabler and is basically acted as an agent for Carlos who abused Alexei as he wanted to raise someone who cant be manipulated and took advantage of) and this caused Alexei to get mad at Lean and he felt betrayed and things took a dark turn as Lean got beat up everyday by Alexei meanwhile he again got attacked, but sustained minor injury. During one particular episode. Alexei dragged Lean into room and raped him so badly that red haired guy shocked (bitch, you know alexei would do this to Lean but instead of helping Lean or calming down Alexei, you just stood guard while Lean cried sounds of help) and another instance Alexei threw a house party and Lean came down and asked what's he doing and Alecei basically asked his friends to strip him and assault him and they did that. Lean pleaded to Alexei that he only wanted Alexei and he knotted and Lean got pregnant
Lean's pregnancy was hid from Alexei under the orders of Carlos. Alexei resented his dad's excessive control and wanted to break away from his control. Lean despite facing abuse, fell in love with Alexei calling him "my alpha" (I SWEAR ABUSIVE OMEGAVERSE RELATION TROPES WOULD BE THE CAUSE FOR MY EARLY GRAVE!!!!!) and yeah Alexei was still abusive to Lean but somehow they managed to hide preganancy. During this time, Alexei arranged to meet with a guy who went against Carlos to gain some info and what he learned shocked him. Alexei learned that Lean married him only because Carlos threatened him and he suffered a lot, plus he doesnt even know who's his father is, but Carlos figured out he's Feliks's son and used him as pawn for revenge, but soon that guy was sniped down by Carlos men and Alexei went into psychotic shock and pleaded with Carlos to let him go and all.
Soon Lean gave birth to baby boy and Carlos kicked Lean out, but Lean pleaded with Carlos for one last time with Alexei. They met and hooked up and Lean bonded him and Alexei allowed it but then Lean left morning and Alexei learned of it and started crying
Meanwhile, before Lean got kicked out from Romanov's, Fight ensued in Lean's family as they learned off the deal as told by the warn blondie guy. Soon Lean came back to his home and tearful reunion ensued and he immediately left for Edinburgh. Alexei revealed to Carlos that Lean bonded with him one sided. Carlos grew furious and is planning to bring down Lean to fix this but Alexei pleaded with his dad not to as he did too much harm for Lean and this is his repentance and threatened with his own existence if Carlos went against Alexei's wishes. Suprisingly Alexei is a good and attentive dad and really regrets treating Lean poorly and blamed himself for making his child motherless, forcing him to face the same life as he did when Misha abandoned him. but this time, it was him who abandoned Lean and feeling bad for treating Lean so poorly that he ran away. however, one sided bonding seems to cause some sort of health complication but Alexei braved it as something Lean gave him as a punishment of sort but fearing that Carlos would make a move and decided to track Lean
Seven years later, Lean finally settled in Edinburgh and started to lead a normal life and fell in love with a Doctor and opened about his relationship and starting to heal but someone is sending gifts and letters as his "friend" of sort. Lean didnt know who it was (Hint: Its Alexei) but felt happy but wanted to end it as he felt burdened. Anyway, Lean happened to meet Alexei with their child and he immediately grew cold and soon Alexei contacted Lean who didnt know it was him who sent him gifts and asked him to meet. Alexei took the gifts and went to meet with him along with that Doctor and is shocked and petrified to know the mystery person was Alexei all along. Lean was disgusted and scared of him and wanted to stay away from him. Alexei begged Lean to stay for a while and gave his apologies. Lean for the part begrudgingly accepted so that he could move on and soon Alexei brought their child to meet Lean. Lean met with their child, Czar and bonded and told that he wanted to take custody of Czar. Alexei agreed but Czar cried as he grew up with Alexei. Soon Alexei collapsed and was brought to hospital and that red haired guy filled in the details and Lean started to waver and Carlos went to Lean and told him to stay away and told him if not for Alexei's wishes, he would have captured Lean for his treatment long ago. Soon Alexei recovered and beleived that Lean would give him a chance and they might start afresh and went to seek Lean only to see him and that doctor sharing lovely moment hit that Lean never would smile with him and left. He got caught in rain and got severely sick along with his condition, his health worsened. The only way to cure is that the bonder has to share their pheremone.
Meanwhile the relationship between Lean and that doctor started to change. Lean started to waver and chose to help Alexei. That Doctor though heartbroken, accepted gracefully and even came forward to do the procedure. The procedure went well and soon Alexei cried and begged Lean to stay and apologized for all his wrongdoings and Carlos eventually came around and accepted Lean as his son-in-law and he too apologized for his actions and soon Lean and Alexei reconciled. Despite suffering at the hands of Carlos and Alexei, he treated both of them with kindness and all. This is the main story. Feliks did sought out Lean but Lean rejected him as he told "why now of all time, if you truly cared for me or even though about me, you would have looked for me earlier" and Misha and Carlos had some heart to heart convo regarding Alexei and the things where gone wrong. This has somewhat influenced Carlos to soften and accept Lean and realize what he did is wrong
Phew, that's it for the main story combining Black black heart and this story. Start with former to get clearer picture. Lean is truly sorrowful character who got into crossfire between people who wants revenge. Personally I think he should have never got back together with Alexei. In fact he should have immediately left after giving forgiveness that Alexei is fishing for and told him that he does not want to involve with their affairs anymore.
Carlos was born to a woman who worked at a glitzy hostess bar working as a cleaner. She was pumped and dumped by patriarch of Romanov who already was married and had children. So that lady decides to quit working at that bar and worked other jobs and gave birth to Carlos who unfortunately had a mental problem affecting his emotions. Debt and medical expenses pushed Carlos's mom into early grave. Soon Carlos was roaming around the streets and end up at casino and lucky for Carlos, he's a natural genius and was soon noticed by Romanov patriarch and took him under his wing and taught him and made him part of his organization cleaning up the mess and all. He was never meant to be kept for long and soon the patriach set Carlos in a trap meant to eliminate him but he managed to beat up the people sent to kill him and was revealed that it's the patriarch who wanted hi dead and when Carlos confronted him, Patriarch revealed that he's a stain that's meant to be cleaned up after he raped his mom (exact words spoken in black black heart, scenario felt more like pump and dump to me rather than feeling like SA, but then again, par for the course, desnt matter that lady faced something horrible) and Carlos is enraged and offed the entire family and took over the role as the head of Romanov.
Later on he met Misha (who's the birth mom of Alexi, btw Misha is a man and omega, curse the omegaverse) who obviously WAS NOT into Carlos and he's already into Feliks but Carlos met with Misha's parents and they forced Misha to break off with Feliks and marry Carlos and he's NOT happy about it and so is Feliks who thought Carlos stole Misha from him and vowed revenge. Anyway marriage comes and for a while things are going pretty great (except for Misha who'll act up, but credit where due, Carlos did his part as loving husband and treated him with care) and soon Alexi was born and Carlos was bonding rather well with his son and this causes Misha to get upset (Post-partum stress and depression, dont make fun of preggy stuff) thinking that Carlos abandoned him and only used him for baby and rift started to form and by this time, Feliks reentered into Misha's life and they bonded as friends and Feliks started feeding him poison words about Carlos in hope that Misha would break off with him and come to Feliks.
By this time, Feliks already married and had a child, who was Lean, but got mixed up with someone else's family and that family's baby ended up with Feliks. Lean now grew up in the household set in this story and yeah Feliks's spouse passed away early on. Anyway soon Misha is now starting to rekindle his feelings for Feliks and Carlos got wind of it but looked the other way as the believed Misha wont do any harm and is content so long as Misha was beside him. That trust broke when Misha and Feliks planned to run away and Misha took Alexei with him to cafe and abandoned him in the store while he ran away with Feliks. Alexei almost got run over trying to chase after Misha (who was 5 at the time). Seeing that Misha not only abandoned Alexei but even willing to let him in the path of danger just for his past love broke Carlos's heart and became twisted and hard-hearted and cursed bonding and all and raised Alexei as cold-hearted bastard. Seeing that Carlos would retaliate, Feliks repeatedly launched preemptive attacks towards Carlos and his son who now also chose the path of revenge and decided to destroy Feliks the same way he did to them
Misha felt pretty bad about abandoning Alexei and is now aware that he burned the bridge of any reconciliation and asked Feliks not to target them for his protection sake and Feliks agree but that doesnt mean he tried to meddle. He set up Maxim as Alexei's lover trying to infiltrate and series of events unfolded which got Alexei into life-threatening situation. When Misha got to learn what Feliks did, he slapped him and fight broke between them. However this is soon overshadowed by the fact that the son Feliks thought he sired turned out to be someone else (ie) The children were mixed at birth and Feliks got to learn about it and so is that child (who has warm blond hair, i believe) who apparently walked out and is now decided to come in contact with Lean's family as some sort of associate of sort. He apparently made some deals with Romanov. Meanwhile, Lean's family apparently got into debt is now facing bankruptcy and the only lifeline is Romanov. Apparently Carlos had some sort of suspicion and made deal with that blondie to retrieve sample from Lean to test whether he's truly Feliks son and lo and behold he is!!
Carlos planned that holding Lean as hostage would ensure that Feliks wont act up as he knows Feliks already knows about baby switch and is looking for Lean and decided to use Lean as part of his revenge to get back at Feliks and also to get a heir (his grandchild) and so he proposed a deal with Lean to marry Alexei who was sick and sire him a baby and he'll clear the debt and so facing no choice as he wanted to help his family, he agreed and he married Alexei on paper
Carlos sent him into room where Alexei was recovering from that attack orchestrated by Feliks. Due to influence of pheromones and such, Lean fell for Alexei and did the deed with unconscious Alexei but immediately ran away as he felt bad about doing something such thing. All of this was recorded secretly which would come to haunt Lean. Anyway Alexei woke up and learned that his father hitched him to Lean and is pissed (cuz he recently broke up with Maxim) and is not willing to cooperate. He treated Lean like he's a leech but not too badly. But soon things took turn for worse as Carlos demanded Lean a heir and threatened to show recordings. Lean begged Carlos not to do it as he's already being treated badly and wanted to survive. But Carlos pulled contract card and shut Lean up. Meanwhile the recorded incident was shown to Alexei by red haired guy (he aint no saint, sure he treated Lean good, but he looked the other way when Alexei and Carlos abused Lean, an enabler and is basically acted as an agent for Carlos who abused Alexei as he wanted to raise someone who cant be manipulated and took advantage of) and this caused Alexei to get mad at Lean and he felt betrayed and things took a dark turn as Lean got beat up everyday by Alexei meanwhile he again got attacked, but sustained minor injury. During one particular episode. Alexei dragged Lean into room and raped him so badly that red haired guy shocked (bitch, you know alexei would do this to Lean but instead of helping Lean or calming down Alexei, you just stood guard while Lean cried sounds of help) and another instance Alexei threw a house party and Lean came down and asked what's he doing and Alecei basically asked his friends to strip him and assault him and they did that. Lean pleaded to Alexei that he only wanted Alexei and he knotted and Lean got pregnant
Lean's pregnancy was hid from Alexei under the orders of Carlos. Alexei resented his dad's excessive control and wanted to break away from his control. Lean despite facing abuse, fell in love with Alexei calling him "my alpha" (I SWEAR ABUSIVE OMEGAVERSE RELATION TROPES WOULD BE THE CAUSE FOR MY EARLY GRAVE!!!!!) and yeah Alexei was still abusive to Lean but somehow they managed to hide preganancy. During this time, Alexei arranged to meet with a guy who went against Carlos to gain some info and what he learned shocked him. Alexei learned that Lean married him only because Carlos threatened him and he suffered a lot, plus he doesnt even know who's his father is, but Carlos figured out he's Feliks's son and used him as pawn for revenge, but soon that guy was sniped down by Carlos men and Alexei went into psychotic shock and pleaded with Carlos to let him go and all.
Soon Lean gave birth to baby boy and Carlos kicked Lean out, but Lean pleaded with Carlos for one last time with Alexei. They met and hooked up and Lean bonded him and Alexei allowed it but then Lean left morning and Alexei learned of it and started crying
Meanwhile, before Lean got kicked out from Romanov's, Fight ensued in Lean's family as they learned off the deal as told by the warn blondie guy. Soon Lean came back to his home and tearful reunion ensued and he immediately left for Edinburgh. Alexei revealed to Carlos that Lean bonded with him one sided. Carlos grew furious and is planning to bring down Lean to fix this but Alexei pleaded with his dad not to as he did too much harm for Lean and this is his repentance and threatened with his own existence if Carlos went against Alexei's wishes. Suprisingly Alexei is a good and attentive dad and really regrets treating Lean poorly and blamed himself for making his child motherless, forcing him to face the same life as he did when Misha abandoned him. but this time, it was him who abandoned Lean and feeling bad for treating Lean so poorly that he ran away. however, one sided bonding seems to cause some sort of health complication but Alexei braved it as something Lean gave him as a punishment of sort but fearing that Carlos would make a move and decided to track Lean
Seven years later, Lean finally settled in Edinburgh and started to lead a normal life and fell in love with a Doctor and opened about his relationship and starting to heal but someone is sending gifts and letters as his "friend" of sort. Lean didnt know who it was (Hint: Its Alexei) but felt happy but wanted to end it as he felt burdened. Anyway, Lean happened to meet Alexei with their child and he immediately grew cold and soon Alexei contacted Lean who didnt know it was him who sent him gifts and asked him to meet. Alexei took the gifts and went to meet with him along with that Doctor and is shocked and petrified to know the mystery person was Alexei all along. Lean was disgusted and scared of him and wanted to stay away from him. Alexei begged Lean to stay for a while and gave his apologies. Lean for the part begrudgingly accepted so that he could move on and soon Alexei brought their child to meet Lean. Lean met with their child, Czar and bonded and told that he wanted to take custody of Czar. Alexei agreed but Czar cried as he grew up with Alexei. Soon Alexei collapsed and was brought to hospital and that red haired guy filled in the details and Lean started to waver and Carlos went to Lean and told him to stay away and told him if not for Alexei's wishes, he would have captured Lean for his treatment long ago. Soon Alexei recovered and beleived that Lean would give him a chance and they might start afresh and went to seek Lean only to see him and that doctor sharing lovely moment hit that Lean never would smile with him and left. He got caught in rain and got severely sick along with his condition, his health worsened. The only way to cure is that the bonder has to share their pheremone.
Meanwhile the relationship between Lean and that doctor started to change. Lean started to waver and chose to help Alexei. That Doctor though heartbroken, accepted gracefully and even came forward to do the procedure. The procedure went well and soon Alexei cried and begged Lean to stay and apologized for all his wrongdoings and Carlos eventually came around and accepted Lean as his son-in-law and he too apologized for his actions and soon Lean and Alexei reconciled. Despite suffering at the hands of Carlos and Alexei, he treated both of them with kindness and all. This is the main story. Feliks did sought out Lean but Lean rejected him as he told "why now of all time, if you truly cared for me or even though about me, you would have looked for me earlier" and Misha and Carlos had some heart to heart convo regarding Alexei and the things where gone wrong. This has somewhat influenced Carlos to soften and accept Lean and realize what he did is wrong
Phew, that's it for the main story combining Black black heart and this story. Start with former to get clearer picture. Lean is truly sorrowful character who got into crossfire between people who wants revenge. Personally I think he should have never got back together with Alexei. In fact he should have immediately left after giving forgiveness that Alexei is fishing for and told him that he does not want to involve with their affairs anymore.