Evangeline-Rose
Valentina Voss is twenty years old, stunning, and completely rotten. The only daughter of wealthy, powerful parents, she has grown up getting everything she has ever wanted. Spoiled, arrogant, and selfish to her core, she treats the world as if it exists only to serve her.
When her parents decide she has become too unbearable, they force her into an arranged marriage with Elliot Hayes - a quiet, middle-class man of twenty-five. He is calm, respectful, soft-spoken, and genuinely good. Everything she is not.
Valentina does not see him as a challenge. She does not try to test him like other men. She simply hates him.
She hates him for being ordinary.
She hates him for being middle-class.
She hates him for not belonging to her world.
Every day, she makes sure he feels it. She insults his job, his home, his clothes, his quiet nature. She throws cruel words at him without hesitation, reminding him over and over that he will never be enough for someone like her. She tells herself she could never care for a man so far beneath her.
And through it all, Elliot remains silent.
Patient.
Unshaken.
He never argues. Never raises his voice. Never gives her the reaction she half-expects. He simply endures - day after day - until the weight of her cruelty finally becomes too much.
Whether Valentina ever becomes better... whether she ever learns how to love the man she spent so long destroying... is a question only time will answer.