𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐥: 𝐇𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬 #1 | 18+

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞

In a city where secrets and bloodlines intertwine, the Hades Legacy—a covert, ruthless crime empire—has been ruling from decades, by the formidable patriarch, Hezron Hades.

In the world of the Hades Legacy, love is not the fairytale. It’s the curse.

There are families... and then there’s the Hades Legacy—a dark dynasty where  loyalty is currency, betrayal is an art, and love?

Love is just another weapon waiting to be twisted.

Hezron Hades molds his sons with brutal training, instilling in them a devotion to cruelty and power. Among his children, Hayden Hades is the  whose loyalty is unshakable—who took a blood oath to protect the legacy more than his own life, years ago, until the cracks begin to form.

In stark contrast stands Hadrian, the youngest son, who, born with physical disabilities and a compassionate heart, dared to defy his father’s monstrous expectations. When Hadrian’s resistance turns to rebellion, Hezron’s punishment was so severe and cruel that he ran away and everyone still believes he was either killed by enemies or starved to death.

And that's when another monster took rise, who now oaths destruction of Hades.

Hayden Hades was born in the blood-soaked belly of this empire. Sharp-minded. Merciless. Addicted to control. The perfect heir to a legacy that feeds on secrets and corruption. But what the world doesn’t know is that even monsters have obsessions—and his began years ago at a wedding he was forced to attend.

He didn’t remember the vows.
He didn’t remember the bride.

But he remembered her.

A little girl with stormy eyes and the boldest damn spirit he’d ever seen.

Aruhi Sharma. The daughter of a family bred to destroy people like him. Innocent. Spirited. Dangerous in ways she couldn’t possibly understand.

She danced through that garden like she owned the stars, unaware that the devil had already marked her as his.

Years passed.

And now, she's all grown up. All curves, same attitude and rebellion.

And they meet again, not in a fairytale land, but in a haunted manor, screaming dark secrets, some are scared to know while some are scared to reveal.

Hid obsession intensifies, driving him to get closer to Aruhi. He takes a bold step by purchasing the neighboring house and begins to stalk her while pretendig ignorance. Aruhi, captivated by her new handsome neighbor, is completely oblivious to the fact that he is the same masked man who has already invaded her nights.

Distracted by her infatuation, she forgets everything else and craves his attention.

Still unaware that her obsession with a certain stranger in the shadows is no coincidence.

Because Hayden never stopped watching.

Never stopped planning.

And now?

He’s ready to make her his.

Even if he has to rip apart her world, one secret at a time.

Even if he has to drag her down into the filth he breathes in... and turn her into the queen of his empire.

Because Aruhi doesn’t belong in the light.

She was made for the shadows.

Made for him.

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But as Hayden plays his game of obsession and control, another monster awakens in the underbelly of the Hades bloodline...

Hadrian Hades—the weak and bastard son no one speaks about.
Left for dead.

Tortured.

Forgotten.

Raised in pain, loneliness and madness.

He disappeared once, as a broken boy drowning in abuse, when he found someone who made him feel alive.

Now he’s back—a man forged in vengeance, rage, and cold cruelty.

And he’s hunting two things:
His family’s destruction.

And...

Iva Reyes.—Sweet. Innocent. A delicate flower. She was the only one who ever looked at him like he was something more than a curse.

She smiled at him once.

And that was enough.

Because when the world turned to ash, that smile became his drug.

His sickness.

His wildest alure.

Now she’s all grown, blissfully unaware of the firestorm heading her way. She writes about love. Dreams of fate. Fantasizes about the stranger boy she once made friend... never knowing that boy never forgot her.

Never knowing that he’s watching.

Waiting.

Ready to taste every part of her he was denied.

Ready to chain her to his ruin.

Because Iva isn’t his light.

She’s the gasoline to his madness.

And he’ll drag her into hell with him—just to feel something real.

Two couples. One bloodstained legacy. And a love that tastes like sin.

In a world ruled by crime, betrayal, and shadows, Aruhi Sharma and Iva Reyes are pulled into a deadly game—one by fate, the other by obsession.

Two women caught in a storm of crime, love and legacy. Two brothers twisted by blood, obsession and fire.

In a world where secrets are buried, affection bleeds with betrayal, their stories entwine like thorns on roses—beautiful, dangerous, and impossible to escape.

Aruhi thinks she's playing with fire.

But Hayden is the fire.

And he’s waited long enough to burn her world to ash.

Iva believes in healing.

But Hadrian?

He doesn’t want to be healed.

He wants to destroy everything soft inside her... and then worship what’s left.

As their fates entwines by Hades, their obsession for each other is a tempest, wild and unbridled; only time will tell, what destruction it will create.

This isn’t a love story.
It’s a dark romance forged in bullets, betrayals, and scars.