Disclaimer: Set in the world of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. Original characters Ronan Melgren and Aries Riorson are the intellectual property of the author of this work. This is also my first fan fiction and I am learning as I go, so bear with me. They were never supposed to be anything but enemies. Ronan Melgren is the son of a man feared across every battleground-the Head General of the empire and the executioner of countless rebels, including Aries Riorson's father. Raised in the shadow of cruelty, Ronan has spent his life trying to outrun the blood that stains his name, building walls of silence and steel around the scars left by the man who made him. Aries Riorson doesn't forget. Doesn't forgive. A warrior in her own right, she's spent years rising through the ranks not just to survive-but to avenge. And when Ronan arrives at Basgiath War College, bearing the name of the man who destroyed her family, she makes one thing clear: she doesn't care who he is now. She knows what he comes from. They should hate each other. And they do. Until shared battles blur the lines between loyalty and longing. Until the walls between them begin to crack. Until what once felt like fury starts to burn into something far more dangerous. But love built on ashes is fragile-and trust is the rarest currency of all. With war looming and betrayal tightening like a noose, Ronan and Aries must decide what defines them: the ghosts of the past... or the fire they ignite together.