Kiara Sharma never belonged to the dark. She belonged to sunlight. To laughter. To safe endings. Until the night she saw him. Veer leaned slightly closer and murmured near her ear, his voice dangerously calm- "Run if you want... I always find what belongs to me." A shiver ran down her spine not from fear alone, but from the certainty in his tone. She pushed against him again. "I don't belong to you." His grip tightened just enough to remind her of the truth. "Everyone who witnesses my world," he said quietly, "does."

Anna is the kind of girl people look straight through. At school, on the bus, at home - she exists quietly in the background, where asking for anything comes with a price she learned long ago to stop paying. Even with her best friend, Alice, she never fully steps into the world. She just survives it, carefully and without being noticed. Her life was supposed to stay bland, colourless, manageable. Nothing was supposed to change that. Then she runs into Sophie. And something shifts - not all at once, and not enough to understand, but just enough that it doesn't stop. Anna finds herself pulled toward something she can't name, something her body recognises before her mind can catch up. And the worst part is, she doesn't want it to stop.