||Overtures||

Magic should've never been born in the isolated Rivandia Aesilas; however, thanks to the queen, it did. And not in the perfect way someone would normally expect.

For centuries, the town has been taunted because of a supposed mistake Aurelia had made. They've been paying the price for her greed, and so has her daughter.

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Aqua's immortality wasn't present from the blooming of her age, but it was casted upon her as a punishment for the things she never committed. And though, some thought that living a long life is a blessing, Aqua didn't exactly reciprocate their opinion. Because only through specific occasions did she ever feel like the Gods were finally working to please her.

While different eras were flying by, each one with its good and bad deeds, she stayed the same. While the people she knew were growing old and incapable, she remained imprisoned in a twenty-year-old's body, her powers strengthening in both, force and number.

And that's exactly what made her a duplicate of her mother.

Power hungry, vengeful, and cold.

When she's ordered to kill a certain successful man, who owned a hotel and built a reputation far away from Rivandia, Aqua didn't refuse. In fact, she was, for the first time, excited.

She felt like it was an opportunity for her to leave the rusty castle and distance herself from Aurelia. So she could taste the freedom she never had.

But once settled at the hotel, awaiting the day its owner turns fifty, Aqua stumbles upon his son, who she thinks would make an amazing prey for her own egotistical needs; however, after making a stupid pact with a God, Aqua realizes that the guy she wanted to traumatize is the guy she's now forced to protect. Even when she's only there to kill his father.

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"You're strong enough now, Aqua. And I think it's time I sit back and watch you work for me."

Aqua, a book made with eternal love for you and the people you'd want to share it with. Hope this is a journey we all go through together, I, as the author, and you as the beautiful reader you already are. Enjoy <3.