I never chose this life but I bled for it, fought for it, and dragged myself to the top. A throne that was never meant to be mine.
And as long as Matteo De Luca is still breathing, I’m nothing more than a pretender wearing a hollow crown.
Matteo had everything—power, money, respect. Then he set it all on fire for love and walked away, leaving me to carry a name the world is already forgetting. The De Luca legacy is fading.
If I’m to survive and remind every family in this city what that name once meant, Matteo has to die. But first, I have to marry. An alliance. A contract.
A bond forged in blood between the De Lucas and the Serranos. Isabella Serrano is nothing like I expected. She doesn’t want my ring, she wants my throat.
But in our world, love and death wear the same face. Loyalty cuts deep. And love cuts deeper. But in the end everyone bleeds.
