It was supposed to be simple. One dinner. One decision. One arranged marriage to secure an alliance between two powerful families. Dante Moretti arrives ready to choose the perfect bride—polished, obedient, and easy to control. Instead, he chooses the wrong one. Aria DeLuca is late, unimpressed, and entirely uninterested in being anyone’s wife. She doesn’t play the part, doesn’t follow expectations, and definitely doesn’t care about impressing a man like Dante. What no one at the table know