I didn't mean to keep her. She was just a job. A simple contract from the Bratva-snatch the girl from a glittering party, disappear into the night, and wait for the ransom. In my world, things are simple like that. You take what you're paid to take. You break what you're told to break. And if someone refuses to pay... you make an example out of them. Her name is Seraphina Shaw. Soft voice. Curious eyes. Too innocent for the darkness she's been dragged into. She doesn't understand men like me. Men who grew up surrounded by blood and violence. Men who don't hesitate when a gun is in their hand. I'm the nightmare parents warn their daughters about. The kind of monster who doesn't fall in love-because monsters don't deserve it. But then her father refuses to pay the ransom. The order from the mafia is clear: make her suffer until he changes his mind. And if the money still doesn't come... I'm supposed to kill her. It should be easy. I've ended lives for less. But the longer she stays locked in my safehouse, the more dangerous things become. She looks at me like I'm not the villain of her story. Like there's still something human left inside me. She's wrong. I'm not her savior. I'm the man who stole her freedom... and now I can't imagine giving it back. Because somewhere between the lies, the danger, and the nights she should hate me... I decided something reckless. I'm not letting her go. Not to her father. Not to the mafia hunting us. Not even to the life she had before me. The world I live in destroys everything it touches. And if she stays with me long enough, it might destroy her too. But by the time she realizes the truth... it will already be too late. Because in my world, there are only two ways this story ends: She learns to love the monster who stole her. Or she dies trying to escape him. Start: March 14 End: ///

"Some monsters are meant to be feared... others, to be desired." Offered as a sacrifice to a legendary beast, aria's fate seems sealed-until she meets him. Tall, enigmatic, and dangerously captivating, Silas is no ordinary being. The forest hides secrets, and every heartbeat draws her closer to desire... and peril. In a world where darkness conceals both beauty and danger, it may cost more than just life-it cost her heart. For the heart that beats with the beast... -NYXIA-