PROLOGUE — HIS VELVET SIN
The rain fell like shards of glass, slicing through the night as if the sky itself was weeping.
Somewhere between the thunder and the city lights, a black Maserati purred down the street — sleek, silent, and merciless.
Inside sat Damien Moretti, the man they whispered about in every luxury club and underground bar.
The billionaire with blood on his cufflinks.
The devil with a jawline carved by sin.
He wasn’t supposed to look her way that night.
He wasn’t supposed to stop his car, or notice the woman running barefoot through the rain — her red dress clinging to her body, her eyes wide with fear and defiance.
But he did.
And when their eyes met, everything he had built — the empire, the control, the untouchable power — cracked.
Just a little.
Just enough to let her in.
She was fire in a world of ice.
Amina Vale — the woman who would destroy him.
He didn’t know it yet.
He only saw a problem he wanted to solve, a beauty he wanted to own.
But fate doesn’t negotiate with men like Damien. It tempts them.
And when temptation looks like her, love isn’t salvation — it’s damnation dressed in velvet.