Sleeping With My Ruin
Valentina Rossi built her whole life around one unbreakable rule — the Morettis took her father, and she'd never let them near what was left of her family. But one night....
Valentina Rossi built her whole life around one unbreakable rule — the Morettis took her father, and she'd never let them near what was left of her family. But one night shatters that rule for good. To stop a war her family can't survive, Valentina is forced into a marriage she never chose — with Damiano Moretti, heir to the empire that destroyed hers. To Damiano, the marriage is strategy. A calculated move to hold together an empire he never asked to inherit. To Valentina, it's a cage — one built from the same hands that killed her father. Yet the longer she's trapped in his world, the harder it becomes to hate him completely. Because behind Damiano's control lies a guilt he's never spoken aloud — and a truth about her father's death that could destroy them both. As rival syndicates circle, loyalties splinter, and the past refuses to stay buried, Valentina is forced to ask the one question she swore she never would: what if the man she was raised to hate is the only one who's ever seen her? Because in this family, love isn't safety. It's a bet made in blood — and neither of them knows yet what it will cost to win.