Wrong sister. Right ruin.
Chace Ryder.
Drummer to the world, secret heir to a mafia empire built on silence and blood.
I signed a contract without reading it properly, assuming the eldest sister was the one I was meant to marry, the heiress who matched me in age and power, and I acted on that assumption in ways that should never have been mine to take.
But at the church, everything fractures.
She is not my bride.
The woman I am bound to is her younger sister, freshly eighteen, and she defies me at every turn while I meet it with pressure, with control, with everything I have been trained to use to make people obey.
But she doesn’t.
And the more she resists, the more dangerous my restraint becomes.
I am Valentino Volkov… and I was trained to break enemies.
Not crave them.
But she is becoming both.
Anastasia Romanov.
The legitimate heiress. The daughter my father protected with a marriage contract meant to secure power and my future.
My sister has spent my life trying to erase me—taking what she could and punishing what she couldn’t.
So when my father arranged my marriage, I accepted it as duty.
But she found out first.
The night before my wedding, she went to him. The man I was bound to marry. The man meant to be my future.
And she took him.
Not for love. For ruin.
Then she sent me the video.
Not as proof—but as a weapon meant to destroy my marriage before it began.
What she didn’t know was that the contract still stands.
And the man she used to ruin my future with… is still my husband.
Chace Ryder.
Drummer to the world, secret heir to a mafia empire built on silence and blood.
I signed a contract without reading it properly, assuming the eldest sister was the one I was meant to marry, the heiress who matched me in age and power, and I acted on that assumption in ways that should never have been mine to take.
But at the church, everything fractures.
She is not my bride.
The woman I am bound to is her younger sister, freshly eighteen, and she defies me at every turn while I meet it with pressure, with control, with everything I have been trained to use to make people obey.
But she doesn’t.
And the more she resists, the more dangerous my restraint becomes.
I am Valentino Volkov… and I was trained to break enemies.
Not crave them.
But she is becoming both.
Anastasia Romanov.
The legitimate heiress. The daughter my father protected with a marriage contract meant to secure power and my future.
My sister has spent my life trying to erase me—taking what she could and punishing what she couldn’t.
So when my father arranged my marriage, I accepted it as duty.
But she found out first.
The night before my wedding, she went to him. The man I was bound to marry. The man meant to be my future.
And she took him.
Not for love. For ruin.
Then she sent me the video.
Not as proof—but as a weapon meant to destroy my marriage before it began.
What she didn’t know was that the contract still stands.
And the man she used to ruin my future with… is still my husband.