Born Of Ruin
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A love built on secrets.
A legacy written in blood.
Selvara Leclerc Dela Serna lives in a world of lights, cameras, and curated perfection. A celebrated model in Paris, she's far removed from the shadows of her family's name. What she doesn't know is that the wealth behind her success is stained-with smuggling routes, laundered money, and a father feared in the Philippine underworld.
Then she meets Cael-quiet, grounded, unreadable. He feels like something different. Someone safe.
But Cael isn't just a man. He's a mission.
A covert intelligence operative sent to infiltrate the Dela Serna empire. And Selvara is the key.
He's been ordered to get close. To break her defenses. To use her.
But the closer he gets, the harder it is to remember where the mission ends and the lies begin. And what happens when the man meant to dismantle her world starts falling in love with it?
In a game built on forged identities and buried truths, how do you keep loving the man sent to ruin you?
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