𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕞𝕖

The world wasn't fair-Alena Rossie had learned this truth the hard way. At eighteen, she had already lost everything that mattered. Orphaned by a cruel twist of fate, she left behind the life she once knew, clutching the fragile hope that a new city might offer an escape from her haunted past.

But Paris wasn't a refuge-it was a stage set for her unraveling.

Across the border, Lucas Madrimo's world was painted in shadows. At twenty-six, he was a man shaped by danger, forged in fire, and bound by secrets too dark to confess. A life built on sin had cost him pieces of his soul, but he had never cared. Survival was all that mattered-until his father summoned him back to the city he despised.

Two lives, worlds apart, would collide under the Parisian sky.

A fragile girl trying to rebuild herself.
A hardened man who could destroy everything with a single touch.

And in the center of it all: truths they weren't ready to face, connections they couldn't sever, and a darkness that would bind them together in ways neither of them could predict.

In a city of light, their love would ignite, but not without consuming them both.

"Trust me, Alena," he whispered, his voice dripping with sin.
"I'll try, Lucas," she replied, even as her heart screamed against it.

Darkness had a way of finding the innocent, and this time, it had chosen her.