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Bonus

ARES

NEW ORLEANS

Coming here wasn't what I planned.

When I set out to help my brother Zeus, becoming the guardian of the aspiring ballerina and sole heiress to the shares he needed, I intended to stay at a distance.

I don't create bonds other than family ones. I don't want a woman to take care of—or in this case, a girl.

All Serenity Clementine Blanchet had to do was stay quiet, stay in the shadows, reach the damn age stipulated in the will to take possession of her assets, and disappear from my life forever.

Instead, she piqued the interest of a son of a bitch obsessed with her beauty. Someone who is terrifying my ward, and as much as I don't want any closeness to her, I'm a Kostanidis and, for now, she's mine.

No one will hurt her.