Devil meets Vigilante
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He aches for her in silence, unaware of the depth of his longing. She hides from love, haunted by a wound that never healed-an ache born eleven years ago.
Enzo Mancini made a vow: never fall in love. Aayinah learned to fear it. So when they're forced into an arranged marriage, resentment is their only common ground. But fate is cruelly poetic-because they were once everything to each other.
Not in another lifetime. In this one. Just over a decade ago.
Now, as destiny pulls their hearts back into orbit, a question lingers in the silence between them:
Will they remember the love they lost?
Or are they destined to fall all over again, as strangers?
"We will always find our way back to each other, vita mia."
-Enzo Mancini
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