Summary and Teaser
Summary & Teaser
Five years ago, my fiancé—billionaire Lucien Morvant—looked me in the eyes and trusted me.
I looked back at him…
and lied.
I stood in that courtroom and testified against the man I loved.
I was the reason he lost everything.
The reason he went to prison.
Now he’s out.
Five years didn’t break him. They turned him into something colder. Sharper. More dangerous.
And this time, he’s the one in control.
Lucien doesn’t come back for closure. He doesn’t want answers. And he definitely doesn’t want forgiveness.
He wants revenge.
The kind that lasts longer than rage. The kind that sinks into bone. The kind that follows me for the rest of my life.
So he decides to marry me.
Not because he loves me. Not because he wants a second chance.
But because he wants a front-row seat to ruin the rest of my life.
He wants me close enough to watch. Close enough to punish. Close enough to make sure I never belong to anyone but him.
His words still live inside my head like broken glass:
You think I spent five years rotting in a cell so you could move on? So you could build some pretty little future with another man? Love. Marriage. Children. The life you wanted? I’ll make sure you never have any of it, Seraphina. Not love. Not a future. Not one day of peace. You’ll wake up beside me every morning and remember exactly what you did.
And I do.
Every single day.
I remember the man he used to be. The way he loved me like I was the center of his world. The way I destroyed him.
Now he looks at me like he wants to break me and kiss me in the same breath.
Because the worst part isn’t his hatred.
It’s that beneath all of it—beneath the cruelty, the punishment, the obsession—something still burns between us.
Something dangerous. Something unfinished. Something that should have died five years ago…and didn’t.
The more he tries to ruin me, the more impossible it becomes to tell where revenge ends and desire begins.
And the truth?
What really happened five years ago isn’t what he thinks.
But when the lies finally unravel, it may already be too late.
Because I’m trapped in a marriage built on betrayal, punishment, and a love that refused to die.
And loving Lucien Morvant the first time destroyed us both.
Loving him the second time might finish the job.
A Glimpse Inside…
🔥 THE BETRAYAL
“I trusted you,” Lucien said, his voice low enough to terrify me.
“And you stood there in that courtroom and destroyed me.”
💍 THE PUNISHMENT
“You don’t get to move on, Seraphina.”
His fingers closed around my chin, forcing me to meet his eyes.
“No love. No peace. No future with anyone.”
💔 THE OBSESSION
“You hate me,” I whispered.
Lucien’s gaze dropped to my lips.
“Yes,” he said quietly.
💔 THE HATRED
“You hate me.”
“Yes.”
“Then why can’t you let me go?”
His hand tightened around my waist.
“Because hatred like mine doesn’t let go.” His eyes locked on mine. “It keeps.”
🔥 THE VOW
“You think I spent five years rotting in a cell so you could have a happy ending?”
He slid the ring onto my finger like a sentence.
“You’ll wake up beside me every morning… and remember exactly what you did.”
Betrayal.
Revenge marriage.
Billionaire obsession.
A love story ruined by lies.
And a man who came back determined to make her pay.
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