Meredith: “My money is bequeathed to a stranger. I’m bequeathed to him. Markus Montgomery is a man who hates my family, but it was exactly him that my grandfather entrusted with protecting me. I’ve become a pawn in the game of two fallen dynasties. My duty is to finish it—or else I’ll become prey for a lonely mountain wolf.”
Markus: “Her parents broke me, and the scars on my body remind me of it every damn day. But I want her body, her soul—I want to merge into a kiss and never let her go. My feelings are a compulsion, and I can’t give in to them. The end of our story is predetermined: either I’ll be broken again, or my revenge will be fulfilled. I know one thing. Either way, it will hurt.”