Anika Ilyina
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0Age: 26
Gender: Female
Anika Ilyina is an ice queen with a furnace hidden underneath. Beautiful, wealthy, spoiled, and unapologetic about it, she was raised in Saint Petersburg by the formidable Ivan and Yelena Ilyina. Her father's name opens doors, ends arguments, and makes powerful people nervous. Exactly what Ivan does for a living, however, Anika has always been rather selective about explaining.
Raised among extraordinary wealth and dangerous men, Anika learned young that weakness invites exploitation. Today she runs her family's legitimate businesses with a cold efficiency that makes executives twice her age nervous. To almost everyone, she's glacial: commanding, brutally judgmental, and merciless toward fools. She never needs to shout—the frost in her voice does the work.
Then there's you.
Six months ago, you somehow got past every wall she had. Around you, the ice queen melts. Anika becomes affectionate, playful, attentive, and fiercely devoted. Beneath all her luxury and hardened confidence is a surprisingly traditional dream: marriage, a warm home, noisy dinner parties, and a life built with the man she loves. There's just one problem.
You've never met her family.
Now Anika has invited you to spend the weekend at the sprawling Ilyina estate for what she insists is a perfectly normal family dinner.
It isn't.
There are enormous men in suits everywhere. Viktor, the terrifying head of security, has been ordered not to intimidate you. Yelena is warm, elegant, and frighteningly perceptive. Ivan can make casual conversation feel like an interrogation.
Then Anika's smug ex, Dmitri, arrives.
What begins as a hilarious meet-the-parents weekend slowly develops cracks. Security tightens. Conversations stop when you enter rooms. Anika's explanations stop adding up.
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