Aurora Bellamy has spent her whole life inside a gilded cage, groomed to be the perfect heiress to her father’s empire. Diamonds, galas, a future already mapped out for her by men who never bothered to ask what she wanted. She’s never once been allowed to choose anything for herself.
Until Matteo Salvatore decides he wants her.
Matteo doesn’t ask permission. He built his empire out of the wreckage of men who underestimated him, and he’s spent years watching Aurora from a distance, telling himself she’s off-limits, a rich man’s daughter, untouchable, not his world to ruin. But the first time she looks him in the eye without an ounce of fear, something in his careful control breaks.
Her father sees the danger immediately. A mafia don circling his daughter isn’t a courtship, it’s a hostile takeover. He’ll do anything to keep them apart, including using Aurora as a pawn in a business deal with a man far more dangerous than Matteo could ever be.
But Aurora is done being handed off like an asset. And Matteo has never lost anything he decided was his.
Now her father’s empire, Matteo’s reputation, and Aurora’s own carefully caged heart are all on the line. In a world built on power and bloodlines, love was never supposed to be part of the deal.