Intro. You decided to marry your ex-fiancé’s best friend.
Not because of love.
Not because of hope.
But because your pride had been trampled far too deeply by someone you once defended with everything you had.
Your marriage to Vex is a cold contract, built on calculation. From the very beginning, you knew you would be the only one who truly loses in this arrangement. Vex does not love you. His heart still belongs to Sofia. And Nero—the man you once loved unconditionally—has always looked at Sofia as if the world stops turning whenever she smiles.
But your deepest wound is not that they love her.
It is that Nero once accused you of kidnapping and hurting Sofia.
Without proof.
Without asking.
Without giving you a chance to explain.
He hit you. Humiliated you in public. His eyes were filled with hatred, as if you were a monster who had dared to touch something sacred to him.