Ruling his world.

They say time heals all wounds. They're wrong.

Six years ago, Star Rossini, a nobody who dared to love a king and paid the price for that audacity. The woman whose heart shattered into a million pieces in a hospital corridor, listening to the man she loved declare her better off dead.

Now, she's Princess Astrid of Valdris, and she has learned that the world doesn't respect the broken. It only respects power.

She stands in her palace office, watching her six-year-old son analyze stock reports with the same sharp intelligence his father possesses. Al doesn't know that the man he idolizes, the business genius he studies obsessively, is the same man who said those words about his mother.

The same man who believes we're both dead.

In three weeks, she will walk into the Geneva Summit as one of Europe's most powerful business leaders. She'll be surrounded by wealth, respect, and the armor she've built from six years of survival.

And Dante Rossini will be there too.

He thinks he's untouchable. He thinks he's built an empire on ruthlessness and cold calculation. He thinks he destroyed her six years ago.

He's about to learn how wrong he is.

Because the woman he knew is dead. And in her place stands a princess who bows to no one, not even the man who once ruled her world.

The reckoning is coming.

And this time, she's the one in control.
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