I slept with the one man my father would kill me for wanting.

At the masked gala, Dante Caruso was just a stranger.

Older. Dangerous. Beautifully controlled.

For one night, I did not know his name. He did not know mine. No families. No blood debts. No cage. Just one reckless choice that belonged only to me.

By morning, I learned the truth.

Dante Caruso is my father’s greatest mafia enemy.

And my father knows I was in his bed.

As Enzo Romano’s only daughter, I was raised to be useful. Silent. Obedient. Marriageable. A pretty piece on my father’s board, waiting to be traded into the right alliance.

Now he has found a better use for me.

He orders me back into Dante’s life as a spy.

Make him want me. Make him trust me. Learn his secrets. His schedule. His weaknesses. Everything my father needs to destroy him.

If I refuse, Dante dies.

If I obey, I become the weapon that ruins the only man who has ever made me feel free.

But Dante is not easy to deceive.

He sees too much. Knows too much. Touches me like I belong to myself, not to the family that owns me. And every stolen dinner, every dangerous kiss, every lie I tell in his arms pulls me deeper into a war I was never meant to survive.

I was sent to betray him.

He was supposed to be my father’s enemy.

But when Dante Caruso decides I am his, he does not let go.

And if loving him means turning against my own blood, then maybe the cage I was born in deserves to burn.