Velvet and Vices: Behind Ruby's Eyes
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The chandelier above cast golden light across the marble floor, but the silence in the room was anything but warm. Ruby stood near the edge of the ballroom, her back to him, her hands clenched so tightly at her sides that her knuckles blanched. The satin of her gown shimmered, but her presence outshone even that.
"Say something," Xavier said.
"I don't owe you words," she shot back, still facing the window, watching the city she had once fought so hard to rise in now swallow her whole.
He exhaled slowly. "You can hate me, Ruby. But you walked into this marriage knowing what it was."
She finally turned, and for a split second, he saw the girl underneath the courtroom victories and cold indifference. The girl who had buried a mother and renamed herself to survive.
"I walked in to protect the only piece of my mother I had left," she said. "And you-you walked in to make your father shut up."
"That's not fair."
"No. But neither is love born in contracts."
Their eyes locked, fire against ice. Neither blinked. Neither breathed. And yet, in that moment-amid family legacies, billion-dollar deals, and a city that never sleeps-two broken souls stood in a stillness that felt like destiny.
He stepped closer.
She didn't move.
Outside, the snow began to fall.
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Ruby Sanders isn't just a woman with a courtroom reputation-she's a name carved in grief, ambition, and secrets. Forced into a strategic marriage with Xavier White, the enigmatic heir to an old money empire, she's determined to keep her walls high and her past buried. But Xavier isn't just a pretty face with a billion-dollar mind-he's chaos in a tailored suit, and he's about to unravel everything she thought she'd buried.
In a world of lies, legacy, and betrayal, can two people forced together by the past to survive long enough to rewrite their future?
This isn't just a love story.
It's a reckoning.
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