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“Prince Karl has ordered you to take your own life. Better to die than live like this.”
Princess Aura of Xenia was forced into a political marriage with Karl, the forsaken prince of the Kasa Empire. She believed naively that their love was real. But in a single night, her entire family was slaughtered, and her husband sent her only one message: die for me.
Locked away in a tower, Aura survived three years of torment, clinging to nothing but her hatred. The golden-haired princess who once shone with grace had withered into something unrecognizable.
And then, the man who had abandoned her returned—this time as the new Emperor of Kasa.
“Become my Empress, Aura. I spared your life, so you owe me something in return.”
Fuelled by burning resentment, Aura vowed to take her revenge. If becoming Empress was the price, she would pay it and in doing so, she would wound Karl, hate him, and use him until nothing remained.
But hatred is never simple. The more she sought to destroy him, the more she felt the pull of her own contradictions—an undeniable attraction, a dangerous desire to possess the man she swore to ruin.
“Run from me again and again, Aura. I’ll drag you back whether it takes a hundred times, or a thousand.”
