He watched her from the back corner of the library - sleeves tugged over his hands, eyes soft enough to make her forget the shadows behind them. Until the night the shadows stepped out. Y/N was never the girl who screamed. She scoffed. She broke bones. She walked away - even when her legs shook. Now the boy with soft eyes has blood on his gloves, a quiet claim on her name, and a file she was never meant to burn. This isn't a love story with cages and chains. It's a story about knives hidden in velvet - and the choice to cut free, again and again. Slow-burn. No smut. Just fire under skin, secrets in the dark, and a girl who'd rather ruin everything than be owned.

In the year 2727, Earth isn't the planet we once knew. It's ruled by the Apex, the powerful, emotionless elites who control society, technology, and even time. The rest of humanity is divided: the Stabilizers serve, the Shadows are forgotten, and hope is just a word that's almost extinct. But in the heart of the Shadow , a man named Azmuth is building more than a machine, he's building a second chance for his people. He doesn't remember everything, but he knows this: the future is broken, and someone has to fix it. When their time machine goes wrong, it doesn't vanish. It lands in 2025, right into the hands of Jake, an ordinary teenager struggling with school and the pressure of growing up. What begins as a strange discovery soon turns into something bigger and dangerous. As Jake unlocks the secrets of time, and Azmuth slowly uncovers who he really is, their worlds slowly collide. Along with their fate. Because sometimes, it takes a boy who's lost to find purpose... And a man with no past to shape the future.

|Updates every Sunday| Beginning a journey of fixing what is broken, and giving a second chance to what they fear, Priya and Rahul find the flame in the darkness- in each other. But love is a double-edged sword and neither wants to wield it, the thought of hurting the other a painful and dreadful possibility. But love is also mysterious- it works in ways that the simple human mind can't comprehend, yet it's perfectly sensible to the heart. Would Priya sacrifice her patched-up heart once more? Would Rahul dare to speak his heart? Would either want the other- knowing their pasts with failed relationships, broken promises, and withering hope? *** "I can't believe you made someone like me absolutely crazy for someone like you,"