You have a week, Lucien. Kill Elara Voss… or I will.”The command came from Alessandro Moretti, Lucien’s father—merciless, calculating, and never wrong.Lucien Moretti has lived by two rules: never hesitate… and never fall in love. As the heir to an empire built on blood, secrets, and quiet destruction, obedience isn’t a choice—it’s survival. He’s executed every order without question.Until her.Elara Voss was supposed to be just another loose end. A problem to erase.But from the moment Lucien steps into her world, something shifts. She’s not afraid of him. Not broken. Not weak. And dangerously… she sees through him.What starts as a mission turns into something far more forbidden.Then everything falls apart.A scandal erupts—ruthless, public, and devastating. Elara is betrayed, humiliated, and stripped of everything she built. With nowhere left to run, she makes a reckless, irreversible choice:She allies herself with Rafael Devereux—Lucien’s most dangerous enemy.Now Elara is no longer a target.She’s a weapon.And Lucien?He’s the man caught between two deaths—hers… or his own.Letting her live was his first mistake.Falling for her was his greatest one.With time running out and war closing in, Lucien must make an impossible choice:destroy the woman who haunts him… or betray the empire that made him.Because in a world ruled by power and vengeance, love isn’t just dangerousIt’s deadly.