FRACTURED OATH

AVA'S POV

A debt I never knew about. A marriage I can't escape. A man I can't resist.

I'm a trauma nurse. I save lives. I don't date billionaires, and I definitely don't marry them.

But when my brother's gambling debts fall into the hands of the Moretti family, I'm given a choice I can't refuse: marry Dylan Moretti - cold, ruthless, dangerously beautiful - or watch everyone I love pay for my refusal.

The terms are simple. Eighteen months. Play the perfect wife in public. Don't ask questions. Don't enter his office. And absolutely do not fall in love.

Simple. Until I'm living in his penthouse, surrounded by guards, secrets, and the suffocating weight of his attention. Until I'm stitching up his wounded soldiers on marble floors. Until I see the cracks in his armor - the nightmares he won't name, the brother he buried, the warmth he hides behind ice.

He's the king of a criminal empire. I'm a nurse from Queens with steady hands and a moral compass he's slowly shattering.

Every glance is a threat. Every touch is a countdown.

And when his enemies come for me, Dylan Moretti will burn his own kingdom to the ground to get me back.

But in a world built on blood and betrayal, loving him might be the most dangerous thing I've ever done.