Chapter 1

Rayna Shaw and Ethan Chase were the famous couple who most hated each other in the entire Shaw mafia.

Not because they were madly in love. But because they had spent eight years of marriage trying to kill each other.

She put poison in his whiskey. He hid needles under her pillow. They spat venom with every breath and cursed each other to an early grave every single night.

She hated him for being a stone she could never warm—a man whose heart had always belonged to another woman.

He hated her for using her father’s power to foce him into marriage, for shoving her way in, for being the reason his beloved had been driven away.

But when a deal went wrong and capture became certain, he did something she never expected.

He took off his only bulletproof vest and shoved it into her arms.

“Run, Ray!”

Then he turned and ran the opposite direction, gunfire tearing after him.

She watched him look back one last time, his lips moving.

*I’m going to see Mia now. Next life… let’s not meet again. My heart only has room for one.*

By the time she returned with reinforcements, all she found was his shattered body.

She spent the next six months alone—luring the Vossberg soldiers, destroying their command center from the inside, and finally becoming nothing more than a name carved into the Shaw family mausoleum.

Then she opened her eyes.

She was back in her father’s office. The date on the wall told her everything. She reborned.

Without a word, she found the current mafia don her father, and said the words she had never spoken before:

"I want to cancel the engagement to Ethan Chase,"

Rayna repeated. Her voice did not shake. "Mine and Ethan's. And I want to take the undercover assignment in Mia's place."

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