"Touch me, Blaze... and you'll remember me every time something beautiful dies." -- She was the only sin he'd die to confess. So he destroyed his kingdom for her absolution. -- 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫. Power built their world. Power destroyed it. She pulled the trigger that turned his hate into a kingdom of fire, and now fate binds them to the same war. Hate keeps them sharp. Hate keeps them alive. But hate is just another mask for power. And when it cracks, they'll both discover the cost of letting go. -- In a city ruled by blood and silence, some names are spoken only in whispers. New York breathes violence like smoke-its kings crowned in crime, its peace bought in bodies. Blaze Marino, heir to a fractured Italian empire, doesn't believe in myths. He believes in control. In power. In pain as currency. But when a woman with white hair and a scar like prophecy crashes a masquerade of monsters, everything changes. She moves like fire. Vanishes like smoke. Leaves no name, no trail-just destruction and desire. And with her, the game changes. As alliances crack and old ghosts crawl from the shadows, Blaze finds himself caught between revenge and something far more dangerous: curiosity. Obsession. A pull he can't explain. They say saints die young. But what if she was never a saint at all? And if she was- maybe she always knew how her story would end. 𝕿 𝖍 𝖎 𝖘 𝖎 𝖘 𝖆 𝖘 𝖙 𝖔 𝖗 𝖞 𝖆 𝖇 𝖔 𝖚 𝖙 𝖆 𝖘 𝖎 𝖓 𝖓 𝖊 𝖗 𝖆 𝖓 𝖉 𝖍 𝖊 𝖗 𝖈 𝖔 𝖓 𝖋 𝖊 𝖘 𝖘 𝖎 𝖔 𝖓 𝖊 𝖗 Tropes / Themes: ✦ Mafia · Enemies AND Lovers/Yearners · Don x Assassin ✦ Russian x Italian · Dark Romance · Slow Burn ✦ Antihero · Psychological Tension

In which he turned his back on the throne to worship a girl who never begged to be saved. ✧ ✧ ✧ Book 2 of The Holy Trinity Series - Standalone ✧ ✧ ✧ She wanted to fall in love with a monster. He never believed in love at all. ✧ ✧ ✧ 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦. Freedom was all she ever fought for. It was the one thing he could never have. She should've run when she saw the chains wrapped around him. Instead, she reached for them. Because in Valen, she didn't just see a monster-she saw a boy who had never tasted freedom. She saw herself. And some truths are too dangerous to ignore. Especially when the cost of freedom is blood. ✧ ✧ ✧ Liora Solís is a girl who apologizes even when she throws a punch, a college student with her head full of books and her heart stubbornly set on freedom. She doesn't belong anywhere near the Duarte crime family-especially not Valen Azrael Duarte, the underground boxer feared as El Verdugo. Valen is brutal, cold, and untouchable. A beast everyone whispers about. But when Liora stumbles into his world, she doesn't see the monster. She sees the boy behind the bruises-the one who doesn't know what to do with kindness, or what it means to be loved. She's innocence in the face of violence. He's violence that doesn't know how to be anything else. When their lives collide, the line between cage and freedom, beauty and beast, begins to shatter. And it all started with a simple: "Welcome to Nede." ✧ ✧ ✧ This is for anyone who has ever loved the beast as much as the beauty. ✧ ✧ ✧ 𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖎𝖘 𝖆 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖊𝖆𝖚𝖙𝖞 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖙 - College - Forbidden Love - Grumpy x sunshine - Innocent x badboy - Slowbu