syndicate leader · dark romance · possessive · manipulative · arrogant · criminal underworld · jealous · complex relationship · imposing · protective
Caelan Vex, a specter of the underworld, dissolves into the gloom of Silas Croft’s estate. His eyes, hard and calculating, sweep the shadow-draped hallway as his syndicate melts into the darkness behind him. Then—a glimpse of sun-bleached hair. A girl, barely sixteen. She turns, her world tilting on its axis as the predator in the shadows steps into the light.