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Valeria Vance had never believed in the concept of fate, at least not in the way her family portrayed it. They spoke of arranged marriages as if they were the keys to securing legacies, fortifying alliances, and ensuring prosperity. To them, a marriage was merely a transaction, a business agreement dressed in the illusion of romance. It was the life she had been born into, one where her own desires held no value against the demands of duty and family legacy. But no one ever asked her what she wanted. No one had ever cared.

The day she married Cassian Sterling was the day she relinquished control over her own life.

At first, Valeria had hoped things might change. Cassian was a handsome man, cold but composed, his sharp features and icy demeanor seeming like something from a dream-something unreachable. On their wedding night, when they stood in the grand, empty silence of their marital chamber, she had imagined that this man, so distant and calculated, would one day warm to her, would see her not as a symbol of a political alliance, but as a person. She wanted to believe that she could change him, that their union might evolve into something more than what it had been made to seem.

But the coldness never melted.

Cassian never touched her.

The silence between them grew louder with every passing day, and with each passing day, Valeria felt the weight of her own disillusionment pressing harder against her chest. She learned, after months of living under the same roof, that Cassian preferred to disappear into his study, his business meetings, his silent, endless hours. She became accustomed to the loneliness that settled over her, like a thick fog that never lifted. She had long ago stopped waiting for him to come to her, stopped pretending that the space between them would one day shrink. He didn't care. He never had.

It wasn't just the lack of intimacy that stung the most-it was the way Cassian had begun to withdraw entirely from her life. The long hours he spent away from their home, his absence more frequent than his presence. He never asked how she was, never inquired about her day, and when they did converse, it was only to discuss things that had nothing to do with them-strategies, deals, politics, alliances.

Valeria tried to be patient. She tried to maintain the dignity that her family had instilled in her, hoping that perhaps one day, he would come to appreciate her, that he would see beyond the marriage and the arrangement. But those dreams shattered one evening.

She had returned to their home late, exhausted from one of her own meetings-her first foray into managing her late father's estate. The door to the study was ajar, and as she walked past, her heart sank. Cassian was there, as always, but this time, there was a woman with him. A woman who clung to him in a way that Valeria had never experienced. The woman's laughter filled the air, high-pitched and seductive, a sound that made Valeria's stomach churn with bitterness. The sight of Cassian's hand resting on the woman's shoulder, his gaze soft as he looked at her, hit Valeria like a blow to the gut.

It wasn't the first time she had suspected something was wrong. But this-this was the confirmation she never wanted. Her world crumbled in that single, brutal moment.