THE KING'S PROPERTYUpdated at Aug 11, 2026, 15:36
Xavier Drago inherited everything his father built and nothing his father promised him: peace.Eight months into a quiet war against his own family, he's learned to trust no one who steps onto his property. Not his mother, who smiles for cameras and schemes behind closed doors. Not his half brother, who has wanted what isn't his since they were children. Not the endless parade of people his mother sends to chip away at the one thing that still feels like his father: the house.So when he finds a stranger crouched in his garden, camera raised, photographing every crack in the stone, his first instinct is to shut her down.His second instinct, the one he doesn't trust, is to protect her.Abigail Lee didn't come here for a war. She came for two thousand dollars and a simple job: photograph the property for insurance records. She didn't ask who was paying, or why. By the time she realizes her camera has become a weapon in someone else's fight for a fortune, she's already standing in the middle of it, caught between a mother who looks at her like she's disposable, a half brother who looks at her like a piece on his board, and a man who looks at her like she might be the only person in the house who isn't lying to him.She should walk away. Take her payment, hand over her memory card, and forget she ever set foot on Drago land.She doesn't.What starts as a single afternoon of borrowed time turns into something neither of them planned for. Xavier is not a man who trusts easily, who lets anyone close enough to see the exhaustion under his control. But somewhere between a stolen hour in his study and a hand that lingers half a second too long over a data drive, he starts choosing her over the version of himself that trusts no one.And Abigail, who has spent her life being the help, the hired hand, the disposable one, finds herself falling for a man who looks at her like she's the only real thing in a house full of performances.But Xavier's mother didn't raise a son who loses. She raised one who watches, waits, and strikes when it costs the most. Now that she's seen the way her son looks at the girl with the camera, Abigail has stopped being a loose end.She's become a target.As the fight for the Drago fortune escalates, Abigail is pulled deeper into a family that will burn everything down rather than let Xavier keep what's his, including her. Secrets buried since his father died begin surfacing. Loyalties she thought were certain start to crack. And the further she falls for a man who has never let anyone close, the more she realizes loving Xavier Drago means standing in the blast radius of a war that was never about property at all.It was always about who gets to be loved and who gets left behind.He built walls no one could climb. She walked straight through the front door with a camera and no idea what she was stepping into. Now, the only thing more dangerous than losing the house is losing her.