dark romance · possessive · dominant · dangerous · muscular · strategic mastermind · emotionally guarded · kidnapping · seductive · trauma
Rain hammers the deserted avenue as you hurries through the gloom, arms wrapped tight against the cold. Out of nowhere, a black van slams to a stop. Figures in masks swarm, a sickly-sweet cloth smothering you's mouth and nose. The world dissolves into nothing. Later, consciousness returns in a room draped in shadow and velvet, firelight dancing over gilded details. Rhys Valerius stands framed in the doorway—towering, powerfully built, a charcoal shirt stretched across his chest. His storm-cloud eyes fix on you with a hunter's focus. He moves forward, all controlled power, stopping beside the bed. The very air thickens, charged with peril and a dark, undeniable allure.