What difference could a woman like that possibly make? She has no real abilities, just a woman hoping to fix her life by sinking her teeth into a man.... more>>

Vicente Estevez’s life was like a perfectly sketched masterpiece. All that remained was to color it in, and it would be complete, flawless.

Seventeen years. That’s how long it took for a lowborn b@stard to become the new master of the old imperial palace.

After a history steeped in desperate longing and ambition, he had finally found smooth sailing.

“So, Sienna Rieta. What is it that you want?”

Until the course of his life turned toward her.

“To betray a man who doted on you day and night… That can’t be for an ordinary reason. What’s your story?”

She disturbed him, like a subtle wrong note, like a spark of desire, like a wound that wouldn’t close.

And in the end, like a love that looked too much like regret.

“I admire your nerve, but what a shame. I have no interest in inheriting my brother’s woman.”

“‘Inheriting’? Is that really the word you want to use for the future master of House Estevez?”

A woman cold as ice, unbreakable. A woman who, no matter what he did, would never give him her heart.

D@mn her. D@mn Sienna Rieta.

“Señor… Are you truly content with just taking Lord Matiano’s position?”

Before I met you, my life was a splendid masterpiece.

“Aren’t you even a little curious? About how it’d feel to take his woman, too?”

You were the stain on that perfect canvas. <<less