||The Taste of Love series - 1 || (Smith Family series- 1) NOT AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE STORY (STORY HAS BEEN IN A PROGRESS OF REWRITING- you are welcome because this one's hotter) * ･ ༓ ☾ ☽ ༓ ･ * 𝐑𝐲𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡 Heir to the infamous S&S Group. The soon-to-be CEO-feared, respected, and dangerously unreadable. A man with no space for softness in his world, no room for attachment-except for the siblings he'd burn empires to protect. Cold. Calculated. Manipulative. He hides a brutal past behind gritted silence, sharp control, and a terrifying aura that keeps everyone at arm's length. 𝐀𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐚 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐡 CEO of AS Company. A ruthless, unyielding force in the boardroom. But behind the icy facade? She's loyal. Protective. A little unhinged when angry, secretly soft for the people she loves-and a chronic overthinker who hides every emotional crack behind her ambition. ‧͙⁺˚･༓☾✨☽༓･˚⁺‧͙ "So, you're like a master chess player-manipulating everyone to win. And me? I'm just another pawn in your game." "You're not just a pawn, love. You're the queen. The piece I'd burn the whole board for. And the best part? You don't even realize the game's already begun." ‧͙⁺˚･༓☾✨☽༓･˚⁺‧͙ What happens when a man who feels nothing and a woman who feels everything collide? When obsession meets recklessness? When silence meets fire? Because the moment they cross paths- It's not love. It's war. And their union? A slow, seductive game of destruction. Read the story to find out who survives. ⚠︎ Not just 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞-this story holds 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝, 𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐥, 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, and 𝐫𝐚𝐰 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐬 alongside passion-read only if you can handle it. Not every chapter is sexual just because it's labelled 18+.

"Intimate relationships among the teachers is prohibited in this academy. So make sure no one hears your moans from behind closed doors." ~ After years of hard work, infinite patience and endless prayers, Antonia Rodriguez could finally achieve her dream of being a History professor at Queen's Academy, one of Britain's most prestigious universities. Even so, she felt her life succumbing to further dormancy. The consecutive disappointments in her private life only intensified her insatiable desires. Desires that included getting tied up and being used like a ragdoll by a dominant man. In an unexpected turn of events, Antonia's wildest fantasies come true in the form of a handsome thirty-two years old man named Rhys Clyde, who also happened to be the Chancellor of the very academy she taught in. Young, brilliant, powerful and with a PhD in Mathematics, Professor Clyde is more than the proper gentleman he appears to be, hiding a dark personality that is reserved exclusively for bedroom exhortations. Tempted by each other and the illicit nature of their relationship, the two are in for a dangerous gamble. Highest rank: #25 in Romance on 10.11.21 #23 in Mature on 12.11.21 #1 in BDSM on 18.11.21