Story By Paige
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Paige

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Marry The Enemy
Updated at Aug 29, 2026, 23:52
MARRY THE ENEMY He wanted revenge. He got a wife. For ten years, Damian Voss has built an empire out of ash and patience, waiting for the one moment he could finally make the Castellano family pay for what they took from him. When that moment comes, he doesn't ask for money. He doesn't ask for blood.He asks for her.Elena Castellano was raised to be many things — poised, useful, invisible when it mattered. She was never raised to be a weapon used against her own family, and she was never raised to survive a wedding that feels more like a sentencing. But the moment Damian's hand closes around hers at the altar, she understands exactly what kind of marriage this is: a leash disguised as a vow, a cage with her name engraved on the door.She hates him. She's supposed to hate him. He's cold enough, ruthless enough, dangerous enough that hating him should be easy.It isn't.Because underneath the calculated cruelty is a man who was broken once, badly, by people Elena loved — and the closer she gets to him, the more she starts to wonder if the story she was told about her family, about his, about the years of silence between them, was ever the truth at all.Damian didn't marry Elena to love her. He married her to own her, to keep his enemy close enough to hurt. But possession has a way of turning into something far more dangerous than hatred — and the truth he's spent a decade avoiding is about to unravel everything he thought he wanted revenge for.Some marriages start with love.Theirs starts with war.And somewhere between the wedding night neither of them wanted and the truth neither of them saw coming, they'll have to decide: is this still a cage — or has it become the only place either of them has ever wanted to stay?A dark, slow-burn marriage-of-convenience romance of betrayal, obsession, and the dangerous line between hatred and desire.
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