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ADELINE
I didn’t choose this life.
I didn’t choose him.
One day I’m living quietly in California, and the next I’m dragged into the Marchetti world—married off, marked, watched, and expected to obey a man I can barely look at without wanting to claw his eyes out.
Angelo is cold, unreadable, infuriating… and he sees far too much.
He sees the bruises I hide, the nightmares I pretend aren’t real, the cracks I don’t let anyone touch. And when my past resurfaces—my father, the darkest part of me, the trauma I thought I buried—my mind starts slipping again.
Sleepwalking. Flashbacks. Losing time.
And somehow, always ending up near him.
I hate the way he gets under my skin.
I hate the way my body responds when he’s close.
But the worst part?
I think he knows something is wrong with me… and he refuses to let me fall apart alone.
ANGELO
She wasn’t supposed to matter.
She was a means to an end, a necessary tie to a war I’ve been fighting since before she ever entered my orbit.
But every time she disobeys me, every time she challenges me, every time she looks at me like she’s daring me to choose her… something inside me snaps.
Her father’s death is haunting her.
Her body is covered in marks she doesn’t fully understand.
She walks through this world like she’s made of fire and glass — dangerous, fragile, but trying so damn hard not to shatter.
And now everyone wants her — Lorenzo, my enemies, the men who want to use her against me.
I can’t allow it.
I won’t.
She thinks I’m the villain in her story.
Maybe I am.
But I’m also the only one who knows exactly how to keep her alive…
even if it means becoming the only man she can’t escape.
