LOGINMaria Dominic gave her husband everything—her love, her loyalty, her very soul—only to be discarded like yesterday’s news. Betrayed and abandoned, she never expected the man who would put her back together to be Luca Avancii—her late brother’s best friend, a man as lethal as he is untouchable. Luca never forgot the girl who used to chase after him and Johan, nor did he expect to find her on her knees, begging at another man’s feet. Maria was his. She always had been. And now? He’ll make sure she knows it. What starts as a marriage of convenience quickly becomes something much more dangerous. As Maria fights to heal from her past, she finds herself caught in the crossfire of a world ruled by power, secrets, and an ex-husband who refuses to let go. Luca built his empire with blood and fire, and he will burn the world to the ground before he lets anyone take Maria from him. But as old enemies resurface and the past refuses to stay buried, Maria is faced with an impossible choice: save the man who has become her world, or risk losing him to the deadly game of power that threatens to consume them both. A scorching romance filled with passion, betrayal, and ruthless devotion, this is the story of a woman reclaiming her strength and the man who would tear the world apart for her. WARNING: 18+ THREAD CAREFULLY.
View MoreThe slam of the front door echoed through the house. Groceries hit the kitchen counter with a thud. "Mom sent me," Maria called lazily, voice light — masking the twist of nerves already tangling in her gut. "Said you two eat like pigs and need a woman’s touch before you kill yourselves." The shower was running upstairs — Johan, oblivious, humming tunelessly through the noise. Maria turned, already rolling her eyes and nearly crashed straight into Luca’s chest. He was still in jeans and a loose black tee, controller abandoned on the couch, hair messy like he'd been dragging his hands through it. Big hands caught her waist, steadying her. "Hey, baby girl," Luca murmured, bending to kiss her forehead, all sweet, brotherly affection. Maria didn’t even hesitate. She grabbed the front of his shirt and hauled him down, crushing her mouth to his. The kiss exploded between them — hot, messy, Luca chuckling low as he let her have her way. "Fuck, you’re trouble," he breat
A week had passed. Thornecrest Academy was no longer just an elite institution, it was a crime scene. The kind you couldn’t wash clean. Yellow tape choked the hallways. Classrooms once filled with privilege and promise now echoed with silence. Security cameras hung like vultures on cracked ceilings. The air reeked of antiseptic and fear. The weight of whispers pressed on every wall. Investigators moved like vultures—note pads, gloves, dead eyes. Reports piled up like corpses. The disappearance of Sarah Hensley, still unsolved, still unspoken. The grisly deaths of Julia Summers and Jon Mitchell, hastily declared “accidents” by a press team that hadn’t stopped shaking. The murder of Victor Save, found behind the athletics building with his skull caved in like a melon. The House Phantom files, hacked and leaked by Miriam —now national new
It began with thunder.Not from the sky, but from the academy’s walls.At 3:17 a.m., the night shattered.Gunfire. Screams. The hiss of smoke grenades. Sirens that didn’t belong to any school system.Students jerked upright in their beds, sucked from sleep into nightmare. Eyes wide. Rooms dark. The ground quaked beneath them, windows trembled in their frames—then burst.The dorm alarms wailed.Thornecrest Academy, the most prestigious school on the Eastern Seaboard was under siege.Doors slammed shut. Reinforced locks sealed dorms from the inside. Some students cowered under beds, others threw themselves into closets, phones shaking in their hands. Red tracer rounds split the air outside their windows. Shadows sprinted across the courtyard. Marble columns cracked.War had come to their ivory tower.In House Six, the quake jolted them like a fist to the chest.Miriam burst in
Xavier, now fully conscious and swaddled like a smug cryptid in three blankets, finished sipping the last of his juice like it was a victory toast.“It was Edwards Kale,” he said simply, as if announcing the weather.The silence that followed could’ve sliced atoms. Even Samuel stopped spinning his screwdriver.Miriam's gaze lifted, her fingers pausing mid-pack on the portable X-ray machine. “He’s the one who injected you?” Her voice was low, clipped. Dangerous.Xavier nodded slowly, resting his head against the back of the couch like someone exhausted by treason.“Because he doesn't want to be betrayed,” he said, each word quieter than the last. “All the house masters. Including Principal Whitmore. We’re under his control. He microdosed us with ricin—just enough to keep us obedient. Just enough to kill us if we ever... get ideas.”Fiero stood frozen. His jaw clenched, fists balled so tight his knuckles were bloodless. The shadows






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