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 DEDICATION

For the women who wear their crowns in blood and diamonds,
Who let the world think they're prey while they sharpen their claws?
For the queens who don't wait to be saved—
because the real plot twist is that the devil she married
He was never the most dangerous one in the room.

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PROLOGUE

A Husband and His Wife. An Evil Matched with an Evil.

They call him a devil. But the thing about devils? They burn. And I don't burn, I make people choke on their smoke.

He rules with blood and bullets. I rule with whispers and a smile that promises ruin.

"Three years gone, and you walk back into my city demanding marriage?" I leaned in, letting my words slice slowly. "Tell me, did Russia freeze what little brain you had left?"

His eyes didn't flinch.

"Say 'I do,' princess... or I'll take you right here, on this table, in front of every set of eyes watching us, and you'll scream my name until they can't forget it."

I tilted my head, lips curving. "Careful. I bite... and unlike you, I don't warn before I draw blood."

Possessive? That's a cheap word. I don't share. Not my money. Not my power. And certainly not my man.

"He's mine," I told her, my voice a silk-threaded blade. "Get close again, and I'll send you back to your mother in pieces small enough to fit in her jewellery box."

This war started three years ago. We pressed pause. Now it's resumed...with no rules and no limits.

Neither of us knows we're aiming our guns at someone we've already let into our bed.

"Do you want me to carve my name into you?" he murmured, dragging his knife over my abdomen.

I caught his wrist and smiled. "Only if you're ready for me to carve mine into your heart... from the inside out."

We're not lovers. We're not enemies. We're the same poison poured into one cup. And when it spills, the whole city will drown.

Disclaimer: This isn't romance. This is a blood pact in silk.

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TROPES:

Arranged marriage turned forced at gunpoint

Cold CEO vs Ruthless Mafia Princess

Second chance with unfinished blood debts

Hidden pasts that could burn empires

High-heat erotica with dangerous power-play

Touch Him and Die energy

Touch Her and Die energy

She fell first... but he fell harder

Twisted loyalty & obsession

Suspense-laced Dark Romance with no safe word

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