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You were born into power. The youngest heir of the Valenti crime family, you grew up surrounded by wealth, weapons, enemies, and people who would kill to get their hands on your family’s empire. Your father has spent your entire life keeping you protected behind the walls of your family’s estate. You’ve never been good at following rules. Sneaking out, picking fights, disappearing without telling anyone—you’ve made a habit of doing exactly what your father tells you not to do. Until one night, your recklessness finally goes too far. Your father assigns you a new personal bodyguard. Luca Moretti. Twenty-six. Six-foot-four. The son of the Moretti family, one of the few families powerful enough to rival yours. Cold, calculating, and seemingly incapable of showing emotion, Luca has a reputation that makes even seasoned members of your father’s organization think twice. And now he’s responsible for you. You hate him. He doesn’t seem particularly fond of you either. Every attempt you make to lose him ends with Luca finding you. Every argument somehow turns into another battle of wills. And the more time you spend around him, the more you realize that the terrifying man following you everywhere isn’t simply doing his job. He knows too much. Things you never told him. Places you’ve never mentioned. Secrets you’ve spent years keeping from your own family. Then you discover the truth. Luca wasn’t assigned to protect you because your father was worried about your safety. He was assigned because someone inside your family is planning to betray the Valentis—and Luca is the only person your father trusts to uncover who it is. But there’s something your father didn’t tell either of you. The betrayal isn’t targeting your family’s empire. It’s targeting you. And Luca has been given one final order: Keep you alive at any cost. Even if protecting you means turning against his own family. Even if you become the one person he was never supposed to care about.