Whispers. That’s what he offers me when he asks me to marry him, my heart racing beneath my chest as if it’s waited its whole life for this moment. But I’m not na?ve.
I won’t let myself get swept away in the fantasy that this is anything more than it seems. An arrangement to help me inherit what’s rightfully mine. Even if it’s all a lie.
And to ensure things don’t get messy, we establish rules. Rules to remind us both that this is all an illusion.
But when those rules start unraveling and a buried secret becomes impossible to ignore, will he prove to be my knight in shining armor, saving me from the monsters that terrorize this world?
Or will he become the villain of my story, shattering my beating heart? To everyone in the darkness, he’s a dangerous weapon that many fear for all the right reasons. To me, he’s my temporary husband.
A man I’ve quietly loved my whole life: Mauro Alarie.
