Bitter Taste Of You
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Elena Keane.
5'6. Honey-blonde hair, killer green eyes.
Cat eye sharp, legs longer than his self-control.
Sweet to everyone-except the man she's forced to marry.
She's confident. Manipulative. Always in control.
Still a virgin-by choice, not innocence.
And when he calls her El,
she swears she doesn't feel a thing.
(Lie.)
Lucas Harrington.
6'2. Dark hair, darker secrets.
Gold watch, sharp jaw, colder heart.
Used to be the boy next door.
Now? He's the man you marry to save your family...
and the last one you should ever fall for.
He's a flirt. A player. Polite, but never kind.
And when he calls her El in that low, ruined voice-
she remembers everything he pretends to forget.
Bitter Taste of You is a slow-burn romance full of sharp tension and buried history-an enemies-to-lovers, second-chance arranged marriage where love was never part of the deal... until it starts to hurt.
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