A year ago, he was just a stranger on a balcony—quiet, disarming, and far too easy to forget. Except you didn’t. And neither did he. Now he’s something else entirely: the head of a rival empire, a man who doesn’t ask for anything he can take—and the one person who refuses to let you go. Torn from an arranged future you never chose and placed into his controlled, dangerous world, you’re forced into close proximity with someone who watches too closely, interrupts too easily, and wants something he