Astrid I was handed over like currency. An arranged marriage to a man twice my age—a deal struck to keep peace between the families. I was dressed in white, ready to be walked down the aisle and handed to a monster. Until he came. He stopped the wedding. Stole me right from the altar. Married me in my would-be husband’s place and never looked back. I thought fate had come for me in the shape of my childhood sweetheart. The boy I once loved. The one who disappeared years ago. But I was wrong. He wasn’t him. He was his twin. Now the real one is back—king of the Bratva, cold and merciless—and he wants me back. But Dante Scaletta, the man who married me under a false name, has no intention of letting me go. And when two kings go to war over one bride, the city will bleed. Because I’m not just a wife. I’m the crown. ⸻ Dante I didn’t just save her—I claimed her. The day they tried to marry her to my uncle, I made a decision. I stepped out of the shadows, wore my brother’s face like armor, and married the girl I’ve been watching for years. Astrid was always his, once. But she became mine the moment I put that ring on her finger. They think I tricked her. Lied to her. Stole her. But they don’t know the truth. She was never going to survive in this world without someone willing to burn it down for her. That someone is me. Now my brother—the Bratva king—is back from the dead. And he wants her like he wants revenge. Let him come. Let them all come. Because I’ll set this city on fire before I let her go. She’s mine—in this life, in the next, in every blood-soaked lifetime to come.