They made it out. But survival is not the same thing as peace. Outside Black Halo, the world is wider, colder, and far less merciful than any of them imagined. The people who escaped are no longer trapped behind one institution's walls - but they are still trapped inside everything that place turned them into. Old loyalties deepen. New fractures open. Love becomes more desperate, more obsessive, more painful than before. And the line between devotion and destruction grows thinner with every step forward. Black Halo - Book 2: Tied to Me is not about healing. It is about what remains after the cage breaks - and the terrifying ways people cling to each other when they no longer know how to survive alone.

Dunk looked up into those emotionless, dark eyes, feeling the sheer size and power of the man hovering over him. His breath hitched as Joong thrust, a heavy, unyielding motion that seemed to claim Dunk's very soul. "You're supposed to protect me..." "I am....angel," Joong whispered, his thumb slowly brushing away a tear from Dunk's cheek before sliding down to lightly encircle his throat. "From the board, from the killers, from your own empire. But in this room, Dunk, I am the only law. You don't need protection from your owner ----- Dunk never wanted the empire. Born into one of the most powerful business families, his life was built on expectations instead of freedom. Silence became survival, and obedience became the only choice. Everything changes after an attack meant to threaten his family leaves Dunk vulnerable for the first time. No longer just an heir, he becomes a target. His father responds with control. That's when Joong enters his life. Cold, unreadable, and dangerously disciplined, Joong is assigned as Dunk's personal bodyguard. He's supposed to protect him-nothing more. But constant proximity slowly turns tension into something darker. Because Joong doesn't just become Dunk's shield. He becomes his greatest danger. At first, Dunk hates the suffocating presence beside him-the control, the way Joong watches him like he might shatter. Yet somewhere between danger and routine, resentment turns into awareness, and awareness into something far more dangerous. As boundaries blur between protection and obsession, loyalty and possession, Dunk finds himself trapped in a world where trust breaks easily and love feels destructive. In the middle of power, betrayal, and control, the closer they get, the harder it becomes to escape each other. And even when everything falls apart- Dunk still chooses him. Even if it destroys him

In every dream, Joong loses him. A boy he's never met. A love he can't explain. Fate keeps pulling them closer but some love stories were never meant to survive.

Five years after vanishing from Thailand, Joong Archen has built a life of silence and secrets. But when one familiar name surfaces in the darkest of places, the ground beneath him shatters. What waits in the shadows of his return is not forgiveness, not love only a truth that was never meant to be found

Joong, the deadly Velvet Vice, an seductive executioner asassin has never failed a mission-until Dunk, a stubborn and caring journalist, crosses his path. Tasked to manipulate and silence, Joong finds himself drawn into the unpredictable warmth of Dunk's world. Between lies, subtle seduction, and danger lurking in every shadow, Dunk struggles to understand the intensity of his feelings, while Joong balances duty with a growing, unspoken attachment. Every glance, every touch becomes a test of control, and in a game where trust is both weapon and vulnerability, can love survive without destroying them both?

Playing with Fire - Black Orchid Book One Hitman × Escort × Informant Chicago has a club that rich people don't admit they visit. Black Orchid-velvet rooms, private rules, and a price for everything. Joong is the city's cleanest hitman. Quiet. Precise. Untouchable. The kind of man who doesn't threaten-he finishes. Dunk is Black Orchid's most dangerous escort. Not because he's soft. Because he's smart. He knows how to survive men who think money makes them gods. Then the police corner Dunk and turn him into a weapon: Get close to Joong. Get something real. No wires in a van. No interrogation room. Just silk sheets, controlled breaths, and questions asked with a smile. Joong keeps booking him anyway. Not because he trusts him-because he wants to know why. What follows isn't romance. It's a power game-slow, intimate, brutal. Joong tightening rules. Dunk learning how to bend them. Each meeting a test. Each touch a trap. And while they circle each other, Black Orchid rots from the inside: a new drug, corrupt money, and bodies that keep showing up "accidentally." Everyone is lying. Everyone is using someone. No one is innocent. This isn't a love story. It's a fire. And once you step into Black Orchid, you don't walk out untouched.

Joong was always the perfect heir-wealthy, arrogant, and consumed by an obsession for Dunk's love. But when Dunk chose Archen, Joong's world shattered. Broken, angry, and drowning in his own scars, he never thought he would feel anything again. Until fate pushed him into Natachai's path. Sassy, unapologetic, and untamed, Natachai is everything Joong isn't-and everything he doesn't want. Their worlds collide in chaos, their clashes burn hotter than fire, and what starts as irritation becomes something Joong never imagined. Without even trying, Natachai begins to heal the cracks Joong hides behind his pride. And slowly, painfully, Joong realises-love doesn't have to be chains. Sometimes, it's the stranger you never asked for, who sees right through the walls you built. This is no longer Joong's story of obsession. It's his story of healing. Of hate turned to love. Of Joong and Natachai.

"A haunting journey of love, survival, and sacrifice." Bangkok bleeds, and the shadows never forgive. Dunk and his younger brother Phuwin survived by hiding-but death has never been far behind. Their parents were slaughtered by the merciless mafia patriarch Naravit Letrakosum, and now his sons-cold-blooded Joong and seductive, dangerous Pond-drag them back into a world of violence, obsession, and betrayal. Gunfire tears through the night, loyalty is measured in blood, and every secret can kill. In a city where love is forbidden and survival is never certain, Dunk must protect Phuwin at all costs-or risk watching everything he holds dear turn to ash. "A story of two hearts bound by love, tested by survival, and scarred by sacrifice." In a world of blood and betrayal, who will survive-and at what cost? ✨ Pond × Phuwin ✨ Joong × Dunk

Dunk's life didn't fall apart all at once. It rotted. The day his father remarried a woman young enough to be his sister, Dunk learned how quietly a home could become a grave. She erased his mother with a smile. Sold her things. Mocked her death. Drained his father's accounts, his spine, his will. And treated Dunk like something in the way - something disposable. When there was nothing left to steal, she vanished. Cold. Untouched. Unpunished. Dunk learns the world doesn't punish monsters. It rewards them. Until he finds her again. Beautiful. Untarnished. On the arm of Joong Archen - thirty-two, obscenely rich, untouchably powerful. A man dangerous enough to ruin lives without ever dirtying his hands. A man she plans to consume next. So Dunk doesn't chase her. He aims higher. He decides to destroy her the only way that will matter. He will make Joong choose him. Desire him. Protect him. Believe in him. Ruiner her by loving the wrong person. He will turn his beauty into a weapon. His youth into bait. His grief into leverage. His rage into strategy. Because a twenty-two-year-old with nothing left to lose is the most lethal thing alive. What Dunk doesn't plan for is Joong Archen becoming obsessed. Not infatuated. Not charmed. Obsessed in a way that is dark and absolute and violent. Joong doesn't fall in love. He consumes. He cages. He shields with blood and teeth and devotion. He worships Dunk like something holy - and something owned. And when Dunk realizes he didn't just seduce a powerful man but awakened something twisted, possessive, and irreversible- it's already far too late. Because Dunk wanted revenge. He never meant to break a man who doesn't know how to lose. And Joong Archen is not the kind of man you wound and survive.

Dunk's job description didn't include being his CEO's therapist, life coach or impromptu date. But for the infuriatingly charming Joong, Dunk is the solution to every problem. Now, Dunk's all-hate relationship with his job is threatened by one bigger problem: catching real feelings for the man who can't function without him. Or Dunk's job is to be his CEO's assistant. His real duty is to be his boss's babysitter. He complains every day, but he might be falling for the one person who drives him crazy.