To settle a blood debt she didn’t owe, Chiara was handed over to the man who swore to dismantle her family piece by piece. Mateo De La Cruz doesn't want her heart; he wants to witness the moment her Italian pride finally snaps under his thumb. But in his gilded cage, the line between hatred and obsession begins to bleed into something far more dangerous.

To settle a blood debt she didn’t owe, Chiara was handed over to the man who swore to dismantle her family piece by piece. Mateo De La Cruz doesn't want her heart; he wants to witness the moment her Italian pride finally snaps under his thumb. But in his gilded cage, the line between hatred and obsession begins to bleed into something far more dangerous.