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Then come,” he ordered.
A powerful rush crashed over me, sharp and all-consuming. My body trembled, and a cry caught in my throat against his hand.
“That's it,” he growled. “That's it, Seraphina—”
His movements turned faster, harder. His low groans filled the space between us, the heat of him overwhelming every thought in my head.
“Sera—”
Seraphina Blackwood spent four years overlooked and tormented at Blackthorn Academy. Teased for her braces, her quiet nature, and her refusal to embrace her identity as a powerful heiress. She clung to the only person who showed her kindness—Marcus Ashford, from a lesser family. He promised her forever, until she found him with Vivian Voss, the girl who had made her school years miserable.
Everything shattered on graduation day.
She climbed onto the academy’s famous statue, shouted out her anger to the crowd, and bared everything to the watching world. It was Damian Blackthorn, heir to the most powerful family, who stepped forward and draped his jacket around her shaking frame.
She flipped off the crowd and left without a backward glance.
That was three years ago.
Now Seraphina has returned. She is a well-known actress, hiding old wounds behind sunglasses, with a career she built all on her own. She carries one hidden truth: she has loved Damian Blackthorn all along, and she is only just realizing it.
But Damian has known.
He has watched, waited, and burned with quiet fixation for fifteen years, hoping she would finally see him.
She is home now, and he wants far more than a fleeting, reckless encounter.
He will not wait any longer.
This time, he is going to make her his.
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