They were strangers, living in a completely different world. One suffers, and one is drowning in loneliness.
But, it won't always be that way.
SUGAR VENOM: Love of Necessity.
BOOK 1 OF FOUR TYPES OF LOVE SERIES
Would money be enough to fill that void in your heart?
Yes.
That's what Keith believes. After he experienced what money could give him, he concluded that money could fill that void.
Money makes you happy.
But in order to have money that he loves so much, he needs to work. But what work could an undergraduate who ran from his home―'The hellphanage'―as he loves to call it, could get?
So, him hanging at the edge of the knife, desperate to survive, worked what he thought was the easiest.
As a prostitute.
On one fateful night, he stumbles upon a mysterious man, that from top to bottom, screams luxury.
So would he slide the opportunity off?
No, he won't.
He needs money, and that man sure could give him more than he needs.
But could he ignore the stir of emotion inside his heart?
Rome, who has everything he ever wanted, always feels that there's a void in his heart. He doesn't care about all the wealth he has, he just needs someone.
And being at a club is the worst decision he ever made. How can he find someone pure enough to, as embarrassing as it sounds, to love him genuinely?
But considering his imposing demeanor, people were either scared or felt threatened by him.
Well, they aren't wrong to feel that way.
Then a male manages to get his attention, but he turns out to be a money hungry bastard.
Literally.
But what he later found out about the boy who goes by the name Keith, managed to change how he perceived the male and made him care for him deeper unintentionally.
Let the male use him? Or punish him?
He pondered.
⚠️WARNING ⚠️
•Gay romance
•Mention of Abuse
•Explicit
•R18
Book Two of the Haunted Lover's Duo.
"The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant. During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird." -Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War Two Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption.
In the wake of Malcolm's death, Slate attempts a shot at normality. He tries to cope, and hopes staying close to Eden will aid him in retaining his sanity. However, there just doesn't seem to be anything going right, and the hole that Malcolm left in his chest just isn't helping. He's falling, and he knows soon he'll hit the ground. He'll crash.
During a raging storm, Slate finds the one light that might actually keep him going. The one light to guide him through the darkness of his life, to bring him back from the brink, and maybe even to finally forge some beauty worth living for. A nymph, half-dead in the middle of the road, so close to the end himself but somehow able to shift Slate's entire world into another dimension. A clearer one. One that he may just survive in.