love of dreams

The story follows Adrian Laurent, an eighteen-year-old Canadian from an influential and deeply respected family. Raised in wealth and warmth by his grandparents, Adrian grows up surrounded by love, laughter, and tradition. His life has always been carefully planned—including his future. From childhood, he had been promised to Seraphina Vale, a girl from an equally powerful lineage—her father a Prime Minister, her mother a Chief Justice. Their engagement, arranged when they were still children, was meant to unite two great families. As they approach eighteen, the long-awaited marriage is expected to finally take place. Everything was certain. Until the day Adrian saw her. She stood on a quiet roadside, dressed entirely in white—the color of mourning. Too young for such grief, too fragile for the weight she carried. In her hands were heavy loads, her only means of survival. In her eyes… something broken, yet enduring. Her name was Elara. A widow. Cast aside and blamed for her husband’s death, she lived a life of quiet suffering, forced into hardship by a world that had already decided her fate. She had no protection, no voice—only endurance. Adrian should have walked past her. Instead, he stopped. That single moment changes everything. What begins as a simple act of kindness slowly becomes something deeper—something dangerous. Adrian finds himself drawn to Elara in ways he cannot explain. Her pain lingers in his mind, her presence haunting his thoughts… until she begins to appear in his dreams. At first, he believes it is pity. Then curiosity. But soon, it becomes undeniable. Love. A love that defies logic, threatens his future, and challenges everything he has ever known—including the life already chosen for him. Torn between duty and desire, reality and dreams, Adrian must confront a truth he is not ready to face: Some loves are not meant to exist in the real world… Yet they refuse to be forgotten.