writingsofmohini
Genre: Classic Dark Romance | Coming of Age | Obsession | Slow Burn
He watched her like a secret.
Loved her like a storm.
And then he vanished like smoke.
At Oakendell High, Zane Callahan is more myth than man - all sharp silence and shadowed eyes, a boy forged from darkness and discipline. Whispers follow him. Fear obeys him. No one knows who he truly is... except Luna Vale.
Luna, with her trembling hands and constellation eyes - the girl who speaks in poetry and survives in silence. She was never meant to catch his attention. But she did. Not with her beauty, but with her truth. Zane doesn't want her like others do. He wants every piece she hides - her voice, her fear, her defiance.
And slowly, terribly, he takes them.
Until she gives them freely.
Until he becomes her gravity.
But just days after graduation, Zane disappears without a word - no note, no reason, no trace.
Luna is left in the wreckage of what they never got to become, shattered by the silence he once wore like a second skin.
Months pass.
She's learning how to breathe again - slower, steadier.
Until he returns.
Darker. Colder. Still hers.
But not the same boy she once loved.
A haunting tale of obsession, loss, and the kind of love that never asks permission -
The Ruthless Claim is a slow-burn dark romance for readers who believe some souls were never meant to be free.