Blood And EmpireUpdated at Oct 15, 2026, 00:57
BLOOD AND EMPIREThey were raised as brothers. The family tore them apart. Now the only way to save the empire is to rule it together — and neither of them knows if they'll survive wanting each other again.Dante Vasilenko was born the perfect heir — composed, controlled, handed everything Kiro Marchetti was denied. When the family council chose bloodline "purity" over loyalty, over love, over everything they'd once promised each other in the dark, Kiro was cast out. Dante got the empire. Kiro got nothing but seven years to turn himself into someone the family would never dare underestimate again.Now their grandfather is dead. And his final will has one brutal condition: the empire survives only if the two of them rule it together under one roof, sharing one throne, forced to face everything they spent seven years trying to bury.Old wounds don't stay buried. Neither does the truth about the fire that killed Kiro's father a truth someone in this family has been protecting for fourteen years, and will kill to keep hidden.As danger closes in from every direction a rival family testing their fractured leadership, a council member willing to blackmail and betray to keep them apart, secrets that could burn the empire to the ground Dante and Kiro have only each other to trust. And the closer they're forced together, the harder it becomes to remember why they ever let themselves become enemies at all.He was the boy I loved before the world decided one of us had to lose.Now I don't know how to survive ruling beside him... or how to survive wanting him the way I never stopped.Blood runs deep. But some empires are worth burning down for the one person you were never supposed to want back.🔥 Enemies to lovers | Forced proximity | Mafia heirs | Slow-burn obsession | Betrayal & redemption | BL romance