The Arrangement

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>Emilia is tired of performing.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>For her family.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>For her friends.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>For the city that raised her.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>She didn't study theatre but if they gave out Oscars for playing the perfect daughter she'd win. Every time.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>As the Vice President's child Emilia was raised to be a symbol.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>Her life is managed.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>Her silence expected.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>Her image controlled.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>No one asks what she wants.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>Now her parents have arranged a marriage to secure a political alliance -</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>not with another rising star from D.C. but with Nikolai Volkov. Heir to a Bratva empire. Cold. Calculated. The boy who once looked at her like she was real.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>They think she'll smile and comply.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>They think they still own her.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>But Emilia is done being told who to be.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 48 48 1)>Book One of a dark romance where secrets are weapons love is dangerous and blood is only thicker until it isn't.</span></p><p></p>