His.

"Don't threaten me with a good time, Ramiree," I rasped, my voice a low vibration against her ear while I pinned her to the wall. I felt the violent shiver that went down her spine, her breath hitching. The shadows of the room seemed to coil around us, feeding the friction between our bodies.

"It wasn't a threat," she countered, her fingers knotting into my collar with a bruising grip that dragged me down. Her lips grazed the pulse point at my neck, sending a jolt of electricity straight to my gut as she murmured, "It was a promise."

God, I was so painfully hard it ached. "This is wrong, and you know it," I gritted out, looking into her eyes while every nerve ending screamed for me to surrender. "I need you, Alex," she whispered, her gaze burning through my last defenses and searing into my soul. My restraint snapped like brittle glass; I hooked my thumb under her chin, tilting her face up to meet the storm in mine before crashing my mouth against hers "don't make me show you why i kill" I murmured against her lips in the kiss that tasted of desperation and ruin.

Prologue:

Alex Garcia was promised to Sofia Ramirez the golden child, the perfect daughter, the alliance that would seal two empires in blood and vows.

It was supposed to be simple. Strategic. Inevitable.

Until he sees *her*.

Ramiree Ramirez.
The forgotten sister. The one her own mom barely acknowledge.

But Alex remembers.

Mafia galas. Candlelit ballrooms. Stolen glances across crowded rooms. The girl who never begged for attention yet somehow commanded it. The girl no one was supposed to notice, except his entire family secretly does.

And that's the problem.

Because while Sofia is the arrangement...
Ramiree is the distraction.
The temptation.
The risk.

His family may be negotiating contracts, but his heart is rewriting them.