Elena Moretti was never supposed to meet Alessandro De Luca. She was only supposed to deliver a file, collect her payment, and go home. Instead, she walked into the wrong room and witnessed a murder committed by the most feared man in the city. Alessandro should have killed her. A witness was a liability, and he had never been the kind of man to leave loose ends. But before he can decide what to do with her, he discovers something far more troubling. Someone else is already trying to kill Elena. So Alessandro makes a decision neither of them wants. He marries her. Three months. That's all the marriage is supposed to last. Elena gets his protection, and Alessandro gets a wife who can be kept close while he figures out why someone wants her dead. There is only one problem. Elena refuses to behave like the obedient wife he expected. She questions him. She argues with him. She gets under his skin in ways no one ever has. And the more Alessandro tries to keep his distance, the harder it becomes to ignore the woman living under his roof. Then Elena's forgotten childhood begins to come back. Memories she has spent years trying to understand. Memories connected to Alessandro's murdered parents. Memories that could change everything he believes about the enemy he's spent fifteen years hunting. Because Elena may not have been brought into Alessandro's life by accident. Someone planned this. Someone has been hiding the truth for years. And when Alessandro finally discovers what Elena's past has to do with his family, he'll have to choose between the revenge he's built his entire life around... and the woman who has become impossible to let go. Sometimes the person you were supposed to destroy becomes the person you would destroy the world to protect.