They say love is blind. For Seraphina, it was a death sentence.

For six years, Seraphina believed in Marco Rossi's love, even when it cost her everything. The first betrayal broke her heart. The second cost her their unborn child. But the third... the third would shatter her soul.

When Marco's mistress needs a kidney, he doesn't ask—he demands. And to force Seraphina's consent, he devises a twisted ultimatum: her organ, or her ailing mother's life. Bound and helpless, Seraphina can only watch as her mother's car plunges into the icy depths of the lake.

But that was only the beginning of the nightmare.

Broken, bereaved, and brutally violated, Seraphina is left with nothing but ashes and a burning rage. The innocent woman she once was died alongside her mother in that lake. What emerges is someone new—someone cold, cunning, and utterly ruthless.

From the depths of despair, a vow is forged in steel: She will make him pay.

Livia's smug expression melts like wax in a furnace the moment she sees Marco standing in the doorway. Her face goes from triumphant to terrified in the span of a heartbeat, her mouth falling open in a perfect circle of shock.


"Marco!" she gasps, stumbling backward into the room. "I... what are you doing here?"


But Marco doesn't answer. He steps through the doorway like death itself, his eyes blazing with a fury I've never seen before. Even from my hidden vantage point, watching through the security feed I hacked into weeks ago, I can feel the rage radiating from him.


This is it. The moment I've been waiting for.


Marco's hand shoots out and grabs Livia by the throat, his fingers wrapping around her delicate neck like a vice. She claws at his wrist, her perfectly manicured nails leaving red scratches on his skin.


Chapter 10 - Chapter 10: The Reckoning