The 20 Million Euro Weapon
"Twenty million euros. That is the price of my life tonight."
I thought my father’s murder was the end of my world. Turns out, it was just the prologue to hell. Kidnapped, bound, and displayed on an underground auction stage, I am no longer Aurelia Valente, the cherished daughter. I am merely merchandise.
And the highest bidder? He is a ghost from a past I thought I had buried.
Lucien Armand. The childhood friend who vanished years ago now stands before me as a cold-blooded monster. He is no knight in shining armor. He is a man void of emotion, ruled by terrifying logic and a numbness that chills me to the bone. A faceless mafia lord surrounded by an army of obedient women.
He didn’t buy me to warm his bed.
He bought me to break me—and then rebuild me from the ashes.
"Do you want to cry, or do you want to kill them all?" he asked, his voice devoid of pity.
Lucien offers me a devil’s bargain: He will train me. He will take me—the naive girl who knows nothing of his dark world—and forge me into the deadliest weapon he has ever created. He wants me to be an extension of his will, a dangerous but obedient doll.
Fine. I will take his deal.
I will let him mold me in fire and blood.
I will become his masterpiece.
But there is one variable Lucien’s perfect logic failed to calculate:
When you sharpen a blade too fine, it eventually cuts the hand that wields it.
He taught me how to destroy my enemies.
Now, I will teach him how to feel the agonizing pain of falling in love.