I want her. I need her.

Nobody can tell me what I can or can’t have. Samuel Smith had it all since the moment he was born.

His family had the most powerful journalism, fashion, beauty, and gastronomy empire. SaStel magazine was the legacy they left him when his grandfather passed unexpectedly and the mystery surrounding the disappearance of his parents.

That was by far what a broken teenager tossed aside when he didn’t fit the standards of what his father expected or a lost young man who took alcohol as his medicine, loneliness as his life partner, and pain as his life hold needed. It was too late when he took control of who he was.

He has become someone unreachable, someone dark and broken, selfish and ruthless, someone who will do anything to get what he wants or needs the most. This time.

It was a mother of two, with hair as dark as charcoal, eyes as blue as the sky, cheeks as pink as strawberries, lips as red as cherries. An angel, a fragile creature that he could easily attract and bend at his will with his looks, wealth, and attention.

But that was by far who Ruby Rao was. That exterior shell hid way too many secrets and a past that would haunt her no matter who stood in the way.

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