THE SINS WE INHERIT

Naoise Vielle Serrano grew up knowing that her surname arrived before she ever did.

Serrano was not just a name, but rather it was a verdict. It belonged to a man whose crimes had once dominated headlines, whose face still lived in old news clips and never ending sentences. Long before Naoise understood what guilt means, she understood what it felt like to carry it for someone else.

At school, she learned how to stay quiet, to just blend into the background, to carry a guilt that was never hers.

It was all good... until it wasn't.

Until Ryzen Aeros Valiente entered her life. Naoise knew every single thing of the past, yet she still let her guard down long enough to forget that a Valiente and a Serrano are never meant to exist in the same light. Ryzen wasn't just another stranger; he was the living legacy of the family her father had nearly destroyed, the heir to the pain her surname caused.

But one thing she knows?

She wasn't breaking under the weight of her name. She was learning how to live it... while standing in front of someone who has every reasons to walk away.