Silent chains An Obedient Girl. A Dangerous Man. A Silence Too Loud to Ignore. Aarya has never spoken a word. A twenty one year old Born mute and forbidden by her cruel family to learn sign language, her life has always been quiet - not peaceful, but silenced. Hidden away in an attic, unloved and abused while her stepsister is pampered like royalty, Aarya's only survival tool is obedience. She never questions, never resists... until one night, fate places her in the wrong place at the worst time. She witnesses a brutal murder committed by the city's most feared mafia boss, Luca De Rossi - a twenty eight year old man known for leaving no witnesses alive. But when he finds her cowering in fear, trembling and tear-streaked, he spares her life. Barely. A story of forced proximity, power and vulnerability, slow-burning connection, and a girl who can't speak... but says everything without words. ---

​"Please-I just-I want to go home-please-" ​Her voice cracked, dissolving into incoherent sobs, fragments of a life that no longer belonged to her. She begged until her throat was raw, pleading for a mercy that Adam didn't seem to possess. But as the days blur into a terrifying dependency, the nightmare begins to shift. ​Locked in a battle of wills, Elara finds herself fighting something more dangerous than Adam's control: her own traitor heart, beating for the man who broke her.