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They say ambition leaves no space for love.
For Sera Xyleenah Valen, that was a fact - not a fear. She built her empire with sharp heels, sharper words, and a heart locked behind steel doors. Love was a distraction. She didn't have time to be saved, and certainly not by him.
But fate doesn't knock - it crashes.
How does a woman who has everything end up with nothing in a single breath?
How many times can you lock your heart away before the walls crack?
When Sera's world shatters one night - a deal gone wrong, a threat lurking in the shadows - it's Raphael Alaric Knight, the ruthless CEO with cold eyes and darker secrets, who steps in. He doesn't do rescue missions. He doesn't do trust. Yet there he is - pulling her out when no one else would.
Where do you run when the life you own turns on you?
Who do you trust when trust has always been a weapon?
And why - of all the people in this brutal world - did it have to be Raphael Alaric Knight who caught her when she fell?
Their worlds collide, their scars clash, and somewhere between hatred and heat, something dangerous sparks to life.
She doesn't know when hate became desire.
She doesn't know when the fire turned inward.
But the real question, the one that keeps her awake at night, tangled in his arms, trembling from the war they wage between sheets and shadows-
What happens when the only man who can save you... is the one who can destroy you?
And when Raphael whispers, voice rough against her skin - "You ruin me... and I'd do it all over again" - Sera knows:
some hearts were made to break each other.