As Nina Caulfield stood there, her heart raced with tension, the icy whispers that pierced through the air like needles against her skin. "Do you come here to exploit yourself, just like your mother did to my father? She took him away, and now you're after his son?" The cold words sent a chill down her spine.
The formidable man, capable of tossing her into a shark-infested pit, despised her very existence ever since our arrival disrupted his once-perfect world. His name was Luca de Milano, the powerful CEO of Milano Inc., notorious for mergers and acquisitions. Unbeknownst to her, fate had brought them together again - she, a naive少女 with no redeeming qualities, and he, her future stepbrother, determined to uphold a tarnished ideal of a family.
With her mother's impending marriage announcement in Spain next year, marking her eighteenth birthday, Nina found herself reluctantly living under Luca's roof while she prepared for the big event. A year spent together, an unlikely pair with contrasting natures – would they find solace or sparks amidst their conflicting backgrounds? As the story unfolded, their slow-burning romance simmered, promising a heartwarming happily-ever-after, though veiled behind the R18+ content that awaited.
