Ruthless Desires

Lilith Ophelia Duvall was born into that hatred.
The only daughter of the Duvall family, she grew up in a house where love was measured in obedience and loyalty was everything.

And then came the marriage.

Dante Montclair - heir to the Montclair empire.
Cold. Calculating. The very man she was taught to despise.
Their families called it a union for peace.
And Dante? He saw her as a weapon, forged by the enemy.

Neither wanted the marriage.
Neither believed in the illusion of peace their fathers promised.
But hate has a strange way of blurring into hunger - and when two enemies are forced to share the same walls, the same air, the same secrets... something dangerous begins to take root.

Behind every touch is a threat.
Behind every word, a secret.
And as Lilith soon learns, peace was never the goal.
It was the trap.