Fragile Armor

And she had kept that promise to herself—never to love, never to feel that deeply again. Not until Bastian Roth.

With him, it was different. She didn’t have to choose between love and legacy—because he lived in the same ruthless world she did. He understood power, danger, control. With him, she didn’t have to pretend.

But commitment? That word didn’t exist in Bastian Roth’s vocabulary. He lived