Blood Ties & Broken Trust
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Last published Sun, Nov 9, 2025
Maximiliano Matino rules the underworld with an iron fist and a spotless public image. To those who cross him, he's death wrapped in a suit. To his younger brother, Antonio, he's simply a wealthy businessman with too many secrets.
After years abroad studying medicine, Antonio returns home with a surprise fiancee the gentle girl who once helped him heal. He has no idea that his brother's empire is built on blood.
Tatiana Jones has never known softness. A hardened stripper who's spent her life protecting her little sister, Melody. When her sister brings home her perfect fiance, Tatiana senses danger behind his flawless smile. She vows to protect her sister from whatever shadows his family hides without revealing her own.
But fate is cruel.
Because the man standing beside the groom-to-be the one with the lethal stare and sinful voice is Maximiliano Matino. The same man Tatiana has met before in the dark corners of her world. The same man who once made her pulse race and her pride burn.
Now their siblings' engagement forces them into proximity, trapped between duty and desire, truth and survival. Both hiding double lives. Both fighting an attraction that could ruin everything.
He thinks she's poison.
She knows he's the devil.
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