You're just an innocent, my dear. I only played with you, manipulated you… but once your innocence slipped through my fingers, my interest vanished. "What? Did you actually care for me?"He is the man who stole her heart at first sight, yet she does not yet see the peril that drips beneath his charm. He is the forbidden fruit she will taste sooner or later… the forbidden man. Her mother’s fiancé.He emerges from nowhere, crossing the boundaries of her life, donning the mask of a substitute father… and yet, fate laughs cruelly, turning everything upside down.What if she betrays her mother’s trust—and her own boyfriend’s—falling willingly into his trap? And what if he betrays his fiancée’s trust… to claim her heart with a blend of love and jealousy that scorches everything in its path?She calls him a pedophile, yet she cannot see the invisible threads he has spun around her senses… An eighteen-year-old girl captivates the heart of thirty-year-old lawyer Damian Cross. She made him a despicable man, yet he is helplessly orphaned by the very love she awakens.