Once we were in love...
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Axar Ires Artemis D'Alarie is the one person you do not want to cross paths with. She is everything that you should be scared of. When the time to take over her father's mafia has come, after years of brutal training, she is held back by a single condition. She has to marry, and her future husband is her childhood enemy. Will she sacrifice her feelings of hate, and lingering love for the hierarchical organization, or will she put her life, and mafia in danger, in the name of love?
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