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"You have no idea what you've gotten yourself into," he warned, his voice dark and dripping with blood.
"Neither do you," I whispered back, tightening my grip on the metal bar.
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New York was supposed to be Victoria's escape. A clean slate far away from Spain, her mother's suffocating silence, and a life that had always seemed to come with decisions already made for her. But independence on a massive campus feels less like freedom than she imagined.
Until one rainy night in the Bronx brings Roman Vaughan into her life.
Tattooed, bruised, infuriatingly guarded, and surrounded by problems Victoria barely understands, Roman is exactly the kind of person she should stay away from. Instead, she finds herself drawn into his world, into friendships that begin to feel like family, and into a relationship that makes New York feel less lonely than it did when she first arrived.
But Roman is not the only one keeping secrets.
The longer Victoria stays in New York, the more the life she left behind begins to follow her. Questions about her family lead to answers she was never supposed to find, and the people who love her have made choices on her behalf for far longer than she realizes.
Somewhere between New York and Spain, between the people she loves and the truths they have hidden from her, Victoria will have to decide whether freedom means leaving everything behind or finally becoming the person who chooses what stays.
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