He was a poet with a heart he no longer trusted. He was an actor who didn't know what the fuck to do with his. One was trying to forget. The other was trying not to want. Neither stood a chance.

───────﹒★﹒ Two brothers. Two cities. Two women who never saw them coming. ★ ★ ★ He ruled in silence. She was the storm he never saw coming. She crashed into his world-sunlight in chaos, lips that never stopped. He watched. He listened. But when she fled, he didn't chase. He commanded. ───────﹒★﹒ He healed with hands that had destroyed. She arrived, broken but burning. He offered her stillness. But beneath the quiet, waited a man who'd do anything to keep her untouched-even if it meant staining his hands again. ★ ★ ★ Love doesn't always arrive clean. Sometimes it's cloaked in blood. Sometimes, it chains you before you even notice. This book isn't about soft touches. It's about men who don't ask permission. And the women who make them unravel anyway.