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Hwan's feelings sprang from years of unspoken adoration and the intense want to finally claim the love he had long repressed.

The brothers' unwritten battle lines were outlined when the moon shone over the land.

Neither was sure how Lovely would respond when the time came, but they knew this rivalry would test their brotherly relationship and ability to love without losing themselves.

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Middle East:

With his forehead wrinkled in discomfort, Mark walked the lavish corridors of the royal palace in Qahtran.

The polished marble flooring glinted in the gilded reflections of the elaborate chandeliers overhead. Still, the majesty of his surroundings did little to quell the storm that was building within him.

Only a few weeks prior, his father, the once-powerful Sheik Al-Shahid, was sick and frail, near death, and the physicians were preparing the family for the inevitable.