Nancy Grey
"I hate you," she whispered—breathless, furious, aching.
"I hate you more," he growled back.
And then he made her forget every man who came before him.
Rhaena thought she knew what was missing from her life—until her boyfriend called her boring. Two years together, and she had never once felt truly wanted. Done with shame, done with pretending, she makes a decision that will unravel everything: one night, one stranger, an exclusive masked club where no one knows her name.
The masked man who finds her there doesn't just make her feel wanted. He ruins her—for every other man, for every careful, curated version of herself she's ever performed.
But when she leaves, a message arrives: her reservation was cancelled. According to the club, she was never there.
So who was he?
Before she can make sense of it, her mother drops another bomb—she's engaged. There's a dinner. A mansion. A future stepbrother named Alessio, who looks at Rhaena like she's a problem he wants to destroy.
Cold. Hostile. Magnetic in a way that makes her teeth ache.
When she overhears him cutting her apart with words, she doesn't run.
She fights back.
And something ignites between them—sharp as a blade, impossible to ignore—something neither of them is willing to name.
Because the line between hatred and desire isn't just thin. It's already been crossed.
What happens when Rhaena realizes the masked man from that night is her future stepbrother?
What happens when Alessio discovers that the woman he can't stand is Cherry—the one he can't stop thinking about?
Some secrets don't stay buried. And some hatreds are just love that hasn't lost control.
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