Nya804
In a world scorched by ruin and silence, survival is a cruel game few dare to play. For Aria, survival comes not by chance, but by captivity. Snatched from the wastelands by a man named Cassian Hale, she awakens in a steel-lined bunker buried deep beneath the earth. He tells her the air above is poison, that the cities are nothing but graves, and that she is safest here-with him.
Cassian calls himself her savior, but his love is a fever-obsessive, violent, unyielding. Every gesture drips with a twisted tenderness, every word a promise she wishes were a lie. He brings her food, warmth, and protection, but never freedom. Outside the bunker, the world is dying. Inside, she's trapped with a man whose heart beats for her alone... and whose hands will never let her go.
As the days bleed into nights, Aria's mind teeters on the edge, caught between the terror of the man who claims her and the deadly unknown above. She dreams of escape, but in a world where monsters roam both outside and in, she's no longer sure which fate would kill her faster.
In the ashes of the old world, love and madness are the same thing-and Cassian Hale will burn the world twice over to keep her.