After her parents’ death, Ruhi had no choice but to leave everything behind — her country, her dreams, her peace — for the sake of her younger brother. Italy was supposed to be a lifeline. A job. A way to survive. Instead, it became a cage made of marble and secrets. She was the invisible one — the quiet, plus-size girl in the mansion’s shadows, content with her small world and her silence. He was the man everyone feared — Gabriele Colombo. Ruthless. Untouchable. Worshipped like a god and cursed like a devil. One glance. That’s all it took for him to notice her. And once he did, there was no turning back. He made her his mistress — his craving, his obsession, his undoing. But monsters don’t know how to love without destroying, and when his darkness touched her light, she walked away… leaving him with nothing but the echo of what he’d broken. Now, with blood on his hands and regret in his heart, Gabriele Colombo will learn the one truth no empire ever taught him — you can command the world, but never the woman who owns your soul.