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Cassidy Eisen comes from a poor German family that recently moved to Filandria. She's been working for as long as she can remember, doing whatever she could to help keep her family afloat. When she was twelve, they finally managed to afford ballet lessons for her-the one thing she loved more than anything.
That's where she met Seraphina Andreev.
Seraphina was everything Cassidy wasn't: bold, loud, and completely fearless. The two became inseparable almost instantly, despite coming from very different worlds. Cassidy had no idea that one day, ten years later, she would fall for
Seraphina's older brother.
But she never got the chance.
Seraphina was killed in a drive-by shooting.
The news was delivered by Seraphina's father... and his son, Nikolai Andreev.
Cassidy was destroyed by the loss, drowning in grief she didn't know how to survive. What she never realized was that fourteen-year-old Nikolai noticed her in that moment-not her tears, not her fear-but her eyes. The way they held so much pain and softness at once.
From that day on, she never left his mind.
And Nikolai made it his mission to find her again-no matter the cost.
Twenty years later, Cassidy is still fighting to survive. She now rents the same run-down ballet studio she once trained in, living in the small apartment above it. She lives on the poorer side of the city, giving back to her community however she can, even when she has nothing left to give.
Nikolai never stopped thinking about her.
Now the Andreev heir, he leads his family's Bratva empire while building his own name as a professional boxer. Every day, he sketches the same pair of eyes over and over, trying to perfect them-wondering what they look like now.
He never expected to actually see them again.
But when he does, everything changes.