Tangled In The Dark

❝𝒴ℴ𝓊 𝓉𝒽ℴ𝓊ℊ𝒽𝓉 ℐ 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓇𝓊𝒾𝓃 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓉𝒽 𝒾𝓈... ℐ 𝒶𝓁𝓇ℯ𝒶𝒹𝓎 𝒽𝒶𝓋ℯ. 𝒴ℴ𝓊'𝓇ℯ 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒾𝓃ℊ 𝓉ℴ 𝒻ℯℯ𝓁 𝒾𝓉, 𝒮𝓌ℯℯ𝓉𝒽ℯ𝒶𝓇𝓉.❞

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𝕬𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖆 𝕽𝖆𝖎 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖆𝖓 𝕮𝖗𝖔𝖘𝖘
#0 of The Children of the Darkness Series.

𝑨𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝑹𝒂𝒊 born into a cold, calculating home in Delhi, one where appearances were everything and love was transactional. From a young age, Amara was trained to be invisible. Not in the shy, retreating way but with intent. She learned how to listen without being seen, how to find what wasn't meant to be found.

When she was 12, a quiet scandal tore her family apart-classified files leaked. The incident was covered up. Amara never forgot. The last person seen entering their home before the fall was a tall man in a dark coat. She never saw his face...but she remembered his voice.

Amara grew up with one belief: the world is dangerous and knowledge is survival.
By 23, she had hacked her way into the inner circles of tech and cybersecurity firms. When she found the job opening at KrossGuard Technologies, something about the CEO's name- Damian Cross, sent a shiver through her. She didn't know why, but it was like her instincts whispered, 'find him.'

And she did. Now, she works in the shadows of his empire. She tells herself it's just curiosity. Just fascination. But her apartment walls say otherwise-screens, notes, patterns. She's not stalking him. She's studying him.

Until it became something else.
Something obsessive.

𝑫𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑪𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 (formerly Damian Kashyap) born in London, to a British diplomat and an Indian intelligence agent.

He saw her once.

A girl on the staircase.

Watching him with those steel-gray eyes.
He never forgot them.