This is an EternalKimFlame original. A growl sounded behind me, I turned just before they pounced, tackling me to the ground. I froze, barely feeling my head hit the wooden floor of my cabin. Amber eyes glared into mine. I shut my eyes tightly, expecting pain, that's all I ever seemed to get, even when trying to help others. But when none came, I cracked open an eye to look back at the beast on top of me. They snorted in my face, making me flinch before crawling off of me, then I heard something like a chuckle as I sat up, rubbing my head. "Stupid and weak, pathetic." --- This book is by EternalKimFlame on Wattpad. Jennifer R. Stanley on apple books has stolen this story and published it under their name. They are NOT the original author, and have stolen other author's works as well. Please do not support stolen books! This book will Not be posted/published anywhere else but wattpad, in anyway. I do not give permission for it to be. If you see a copy anywhere else, it is stolen, and I ask that it be reported.

He was the crown prince of the city's underworld. She was the police chief's daughter. Nova Bright knows her art student boyfriend and his cousins(also her best friends) are hiding a painful past. She feels it in his protective grip, sees it in the shadows behind each of their eyes. But his gentle affection and their loyalty is the one thing that steadies her world against the pressures of law school and her own fragile health. She trusts him implicitly. She trusts all three of them. Victor Ashlin is living on borrowed time. The "normal" life he's built with Nova is a beautiful lie. For two years, he's secretly waged a war against his aunt's criminal empire, all to create a future worthy of the woman he loves. But his aunt strikes first. On the exact night he was going to tell her everything. When the ambush comes, Victor , Vera and Vargas's only way to save Nova is to shatter her trust completely. Looking into her terrified, confused eyes, he makes the only choice he can-he knocks her out to keep her alive. And drags her to their world. Now, the man she loved as an artist must reveal himself as the Prince of Shadows. And Nova must decide if the greatest threat to her is his world... or the man she thought she knew.