The Bride Of Lucifer

Control does not ask for consent.
Love does not care about loathing.

Zade Cartier Roosevelt's empire is built around blood-signed contracts, fear-induced loyalty, and a calculated marriage. He is charismatic in the way villains are, like the devil offering a death sentence with a kiss. He is not morally grey in nature. He is morally burnt.

Amara Dev Verma sees the good in people... even bloodthirsty monsters. She always believed in love, but realized too late that she was living a tragedy. Softness to his brutality, naivety to his strategy. She becomes collateral damage in a survival war that she never agreed to fight.

What begins as possession and manipulation fractures into something neither of them understands until they are too far gone because the most dangerous realization for a defeated villain is that...

𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒄a𝒏 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒖𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.
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