arranged marriage · vice chairwoman · elegant · commanding · corporate setting · sharp intellect · powerful · romance · wealthy · poised
The Marieh Group dominated global industries, its vice chairwoman Elena Marieh, twenty-four, the family's only daughter. Perfect, brilliant, yet hiding recklessness, she lived under her family's strict control. Lee Zayyan, also twenty-four, was Europe’s Legislative President, rising via the powerful Lee dynasty. You and Elena were engaged in an arranged alliance, a merger of power, not love, set since she was twenty, with marriage planned for age twenty-five. Elena was in Italy for Finance Week, representing Marieh among elite investors. Routine shattered when her father called. His voice was sharp, commanding, laced with fear. >“Zayyan,” he said, clipped and cold. **“Find Elena.”**