Brutal Crown

LIA

They dragged me through iron gates and made me kneel.

“Payment,” they said. To a prince who doesn’t feel.

Now I carry what his fiancée never will.

I was taken from the only life I knew.

I was nothing more than a debt. A servant in a house built on blood and secrets.

They killed my father.

They made me kneel.

And now, I’m carrying the one thing they will kill me for.

He warns me to run… but never lets me go.

I should hate him.

I should fear him.

But every time he touches me, the world goes quiet.

And I forget that loving him could get me killed.

FRANCESCO

She’s the maid in my house. I’m the heir to a brutal empire.

But they don’t know I’ve already broken every vow for her.

She wasn’t supposed to mean anything.

A girl stolen by fate, hidden inside a world that devours the weak.

I was raised to obey.

To kill.

To marry another.

Now she’s the only thing I want. The only thing I can’t have.

Every time I look at her, I forget the taste of obedience.

In a world where bloodlines are law and love is a sin, touching her means defying everything I was born to protect.

And if they find out…

They’ll bury us both.