The Rogue Jack {Castle of Cards #2}

ℝ𝕠𝕘𝕦𝕖 𝕁𝕒𝕔𝕜

𝒟𝑒𝓈𝒾𝓇𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝓃𝑜 𝓁𝑜𝓎𝒶𝓁𝓉𝓎, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓃𝑒𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒹𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎

Nazario De la Garza has spent most of his life far from the gilded cages his family calls home, choosing chemical labs on the outskirts of Miami over the mansion that raised him. He prefers silence to politics, isolation to blood feuds, distance to the suffocating power of Don Vasco De la Garza; despite being the heir to it all.

He only returns because Vinicio asked for single night, a single celebration, a brotherly favor: attend the proposal party meant to fix a shattered treaty.

But the moment Naz steps inside the house he had abandoned, he meets the woman who will destroy whatever morality he has left.

Ariadna Ramon.

His father's notoriously gossiped-about new wife.
She crashes into him drunk before the party even begins-blonde hair in disarray, blue eyes unruly, champagne on her mouth, rebellion in her pulse. Too young for the life she married into. Too reckless to pretend she wants it. Too tempting for a man who has spent years starving every impulse that makes him dangerous.

One look at her, and something snaps inside him-catastrophically.

Curiosity. Desire. Darkness. Ferocity.

The ones he swore he'd never let himself feel.

Naz was raised to inherit his father's empire; routes, orders, structures, but the trophy wife was never part of the inheritance. For a territorial man, crossing that line is instinct, but watching her belong to the man who made him is torture.

While Ariadna seeks to reclaim the youth she traded for safety and status, Naz is a bastard trying to feel anything other than the slow spiritual decay that has haunted him since his mother died.

Together, they find liberation not in love, but in danger. Somewhere between manipulation and mania, they need each other with a hunger that is both addictive and agonizing.

The problem never lay in actions, but in