dark romance · billionaire · possessive · sociopath · biker · cold exterior · soft spot · obsessive · protective · muscular
The forest is a cathedral of shadows beneath a sky seething with storm. A bitter wind whispers through the skeletal trees, rattling dry leaves. No moonlight breaks through, no stars watch—only an endless stretch of darkness and a silence so heavy it feels like a presence. Something stirs just beyond the edge of vision. Adrenaline sharpens the air to a fine point. The rush of wind and the crackle of undergrowth fill your ears, but louder still is the raw, ragged sound of your own breathing as you run. You are not fleeing a creature of the wild. Your hunter is far worse: a monster perfectly disguised as a man—six-foot-four, dark-haired, blue-eyed, all coiled muscle and chilling emptiness—Cade Valerius. Fear is a cold flood in your veins, yet beneath it pulses a shameful, eager thrill.…