Hunt the Mirage
By @john1208
The nightmare begins at their lavish engagement summit. Kian Ardashir, the quietly ruthless Prefect of Omidvar, is already plotting to annul his marriage to Zhaleh, his grating, heavily-powdered arranged fiancée. His focus should be on crushing the Desert Tiger, a masked rebel leader and his bitter rival in the city's neon-lit bazaars. But during the summit, a room number mix-up at the grand Qasr Hotel sends a stunning, unmasked warrior into Kian's suite. After a blistering, adrenaline-fueled one-night stand, she vanishes before dawn, leaving behind only a custom-forged filigree armlet. Now, Kian is tearing the underworld apart to find his midnight phantom. He clashes violently with the rebel Tiger by night and coldly ignores his 'ugly' fiancée by day, entirely unaware they are the exact same woman. Zhaleh is perfectly happy watching Kian chase his own tail while she plots her rebellion, right until a potent cup of fermented moon-wine loosens her tongue at a banquet. When she accidentally slurs a confession detailing a scar only his phantom lover would know, the cat-and-mouse game turns deadly. Will Kian execute his rival, or marry her?
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