I was sold to the man who swore to destroy me. King Rafael Draven the monster my father made. His body bears the scars of my family’s sins, and his eyes promise vengeance. I was brought into his house in chains, marked as payment for my father’s crimes. He said he’d break me. He said I’d beg. But each night he touches me, something dangerous erupts between us a fire too fierce to be called hate, too raw to be called love. Beneath his cruelty lies a man haunted by pain, and beneath my defiance hides a desire I can’t erase. When I discover the truth that his inability to produce an heir is tied to the same curse that killed my bloodline I understand our fates were never separate. We are bound by the same darkness. Now, the question isn’t whether I can avoid him. It’s whether we can survive each other. Because someone wants him dead… And they’ll use me to make it happen. By the time he learns the truth I might be carrying the child he thought he’d never have.