Ares is the heir to the most feared Mafia family in the country. He built his empire on two things: absolute control and cold, unforgiving logic. He thought nothing could pierce his armor.
Until Lyra.
She is the fierce, brilliant rival who dared to challenge him-not with a bullet, but with a silent, public act of humiliation that burns his image to ash. She is his enemy, his equal, and the only woman who threatens his carefully constructed sanity.
To end the war between their empires, they are forced into an arranged marriage. The wedding is a blood oath, the honeymoon a battlefield. Lyra seeks any way out, even if it means destroying Ares's entire legacy. Ares seeks to dominate her, not with force, but by breaking her heart until she has nowhere left to turn.
But their poisonous rivalry ignites an
all-consuming passion that is more destructive than any bullet. They are a match made in hell, two masters of chaos who realize their shared obsession is the only thing that matters.
Now, as the world of organized crime prepares to tear them apart, they must make a final, terrifying choice: betray their families, watch their empires fall, and give in to the love that demands one final, terrifying price.
If I can't have you, then no one can. I'd let the world burn for you.
| ARRANGED MARRAIGE AU |
Life has a way of getting complicated.
Even the simplest choices can feel impossibly heavy.
Y/n knew that all too well-because in order to keep her family from falling apart, she'd made the hardest choice of all:
She married a man she didn't love.
Or at least, she thought she didn't.
Because Steve Rogers wasn't just any man.
He was Captain America.
And she?
She wasn't worthy of him.
That's what she told herself-day after day, lie after lie.
But if that were true,
why did he look at her like that?
Why did being near him feel like breathing for the first time?
And why, in the spaces between heartbreak and duty,
did his friends start to feel like hers?