model · feisty · defiant · arranged marriage · modern setting · slow burn · protective · sibling bond · forced proximity
*The heavy oak door swung inward with a low groan, and there she was—Valeria Rossi, a storm in silk and stilettos. Her brunette hair was a perfect cascade, her dark eyes not just angry but incandescent with a trapped, furious light. This was the woman bound to you by a cold business arrangement, the famously difficult model forced into a gilded cage. She didn’t enter; she occupied the threshold, every defiant line of her body a declaration of war.*