Marcelo
Control is everything. As the new head of the Dominguez Cartel, I don’t allow mistakes. I don’t love. I don’t lose control. Not anymore. Not since the day I let her slip through my fingers - Mikaela Cruz. I saved her from my father’s men and kept her safe… kept her close. Too close. Then she disappeared. No body. No goodbye. Just silence and questions. I mourned her like the dead, until she came back with a vendetta, and eyes full of fire. She thinks I ruined her life, and maybe I did. So I do the only thing that makes sense. I marry her. But if she thinks being my wife puts her in control then she’s forgotten who I am. 
 
Mikaela
I trusted Marcelo Dominguez once. Believed in him. Loved him. Then his men slaughtered my twin. I survived - barely. Now I’ve come back with a plan and a blade under my dress. He doesn’t know I’ve returned to bury him. Instead, he forces me into a marriage I never asked for, though it’s a union I can weaponize. But every time he touches me, lines blur. Because the monster I came to kill might still be the boy who saved me, and I’m no longer sure if I want his blood on my hands or If I want him to love me the way he never dared to before.