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PROLOGUE

I knew my fate my entire life.

I knew what was laid out in the cards.

I knew my role since the day I was born.

But that all changed after a chance meeting in a bar.

Fate had other plans.

The cards changed.

My role was forfeit.

But I didn’t know it ten years ago. I only realized it now.

Funny how fate works. Showing its hand at the most inopportune time.

And now I am left deciding what choice to make.

A decision that will change everyone’s lives.

But even as I have the gun in my hand, the only thing I can focus on are those dark, midnight eyes. The faintest hint of gold hitting them like the embers of flames. Because those eyes burn. Not just for her own worth and Aria’s but for her fury, her passion, her strength.

They burn for me too. That’s one thing I have always seen. I’ve always known. Ten years never changed that fire burning in either of us.

And now as I aim my gun at the people threatening to destroy us both. I only have one choice to make.

Her or me?

Only one of us was meant to survive this game we were both born into.

It now comes down to who will pull the trigger first.