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Hi everyone this is J.B.C., and I am beyond thrilled to finally share this story with you. To those who have picked up this book thank you. You are about to enter a world of contradictions: innocence and danger, gentleness and cruelty, tenderness and fire. It is a world where fate plays its most mischievous game, weaving together two souls who should have never crossed paths, and yet, destiny demands otherwise.

Allow me to introduce the boy at the heart of this tale Clark Reyes Villa. He is young, earnest, and untainted by the darker shades of life. A nurse, dedicated to healing and saving, Clark’s days are filled with quiet acts of kindness. He belongs to the light, someone who walks through life with steady steps and a heart that believes in goodness. His world has no room for bullets or blood, for crime lords and shadows that rule the night. And yet, it is precisely into that darkness he is about to be thrown.

For opposite him stands Steven Monadragon. His very name strikes like thunder, whispered in fear and awe. He is wealth beyond measure, power beyond reach, and danger wrapped in the elegance of a man who has everything but mercy. Steven has built his empire on fear, blood, and unyielding control. A Mafia lord with no softness in his heart or so the world believes. But even the cruelest of kings can be shaken when their gaze falls on something they never expected.

When Steven first laid eyes on Clark, it was not a meeting of equals. It was a clash of worlds an innocent boy, too fragile, too pure, suddenly caught in the gaze of a man who could burn empires to the ground. That single moment was enough. The Mafia lord, feared and untouchable, found himself ensnared by something far more dangerous than rivals or guns an unassuming nurse with eyes that reflected only truth.

And then comes the twist of fate: an arranged marriage. Neither Clark nor Steven asked for it, neither dreamed of it, yet it is forced upon them like chains that bind their futures together. For Clark, it is the shattering of everything familiar how does a boy of light stand beside a man who thrives in darkness? For Steven, it is the first test of something he has long denied himself: vulnerability.

This story is not about love at first sight, nor is it the usual fairytale. No, this is a journey where love will come last, after battles of will, moments of danger, and stolen glances that whisper of something forbidden. It is a tale of romance born from chaos, of action laced with tenderness, of hearts learning to trust when everything screams they should not.

Marriage before love. Danger before safety. Fire before comfort. And yet beneath all of that, a promise of something breathtaking. This is their story. This is our story.

Welcome, dear reader. Welcome to the world of Clark and Steven.

...-------Remember this story is fictional, the place, person, name is not true---------...

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