All Chapters of Bound To The Devil's Heir : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Serena point of View: I laugh. it's the wrong reaction - I know that. But it escapes before I can stop it, dry and bitter and sharp enough to slice through the silence between us. "Financee?" I echo. " That's your game? You spend a quarter million on a hostage and call it romance?" he doesn't blink. Doesn't Flinch. Doesn't smile. "I didn't buy you for romance." "The what the hell-" "I bought you because I need you" He says it so plainly.. Like it's a transaction. like I'm a handbag, or a forged signature, or a weapon. I take a step back, toward the door. my breath is shallow now. I feel the cold of the marble floor through the thin slip dress they forced on me. "I don't know who you think I am," I say slowly, "But you've made a mistake." He follows. Leisurely. like a predator who knows the prey can't escape. "oh, I know exactly who you are, " he says. "Serena vale. Art student. NYU. Raised in Maine. changed your last name five years ago after your father was caught in

Damien's point of View There's a difference between keeping wolves at bay and inviting them to dinner.Tonight, I'm doing the latter.The Alaric estate gleams under a blood- orange sunset, the kind Emilia says reminds her of the battlefield after the storm. she's always been poetic like that. sensitive in a way no one else in this family dares to be.She outed me this morning. I should've seen it coming. Emilia had always been impulsive, but this time, her excitement got the best of her. she told out family I was engaged before I even had the chance to prepare Serena before I had the chance to decide if this game was worth playing.but the moment she said it, I made a choice.I told them it was true.and now, Serena and I have to play the part for one dinner, at least before the snakes start to coil and the vultures start to circle.I adjust my cufflinks in the mirror - onyx and platinum, my father's old pair. A relic of a man who taught me that family is nothing without power and po