Mutti pen
They called her a stray dog dressed in silk.
Her husband choked her in a wedding shop. Her sister shoved her under a car. Her family danced on her grave before the dirt was cold.
Then she opened her eyes seven years in the past.
"You think you can break me twice, Kyle?"
"Celine, I made a mistake. I was blind. Just give me one more chance and I'll spend the rest of my life proving."
"You had your chance. You used it to destroy me."
"I love you."
"You loved the version of me that was stupid enough to believe you."
She came back with a colder heart, a sharper mind, and the kind of rage that doesn't scream. It plans.
But Celine didn't expect Aron Caruso. The man who ordered her burial in one life became the man who refused to let her fall in the next. Cold, dangerous, untouchable, and the only person who never once asked her to be softer.
"Why do you keep saving me?"
"Because nobody else is worth the trouble."
She wanted revenge. He wanted her. And the man who threw her away? He wanted her back.
Too late.
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