||The Taste of Love series - 1 || Smith Family series- 1 #18- America- 07/02/26 #11- Family secrets- 08/02/26 #164-Business-14/02/26 ⚠︎ NOT A ROMANCE-ONLY STORY This book contains violence, blood, betrayal, obsession, and psychological intensity. Do not judge a book by its opening. * ･ ༓ ☾ ☽ ༓ ･ * 𝐑𝐲𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡 Heir to the famous 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. ‧͙⁺˚･༓☾☽༓･˚⁺‧͙ 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. 𓆉 ⋆｡𓇼 ⋆｡𓆟 Labeled 18+ for its 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, not for constant erotica. While it opens with a hookup, the story is not necessarily driven by explicit scenes-but by what follows after: silence, memory, power, danger, and the wounds people learn to live with. Expect strategic conflicts, ruthless alliances, and relationships shaped by their environment rather than harm between the leads. This is a story where the bleeding stops-but the scar remains, quietly itching beneath the skin.