Read and Swoon

I wasn’t supposed to touch her, I was supposed to destroy her.

I meet her at the docks, standing where my enemies rule, with defiance in her eyes and danger written all over her name.

She’s the daughter of my family’s rival.
Off-limits. Untouchable. A mistake waiting to happen.

I tell myself she’s a problem to eliminate.
Instead, she becomes the one thing I can’t walk away from.

We’re forced into the same shadows, chasing a threat meant to start a war.

Every glance turns into tension.
Every argument turns into heat.

One reckless night shatters every rule I was raised by.

Then I see who she really is: brilliant, unbreakable, loyal even when she shouldn’t be.

She challenges my control.
Softens the parts of me that were never meant to exist.

By the time I realize I’m falling, the city is already closing in.

Betrayal comes from blood.
Bullets follow her everywhere.

And now she’s carrying my life
turning forbidden love into a death sentence I’ll burn the world to undo.