Escplied Hearts
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Last published Thu, Jun 12, 2025
꒰ ⊹ Where Shadows Kiss the Light ⊹ ꒱
"Monsters were real. She met one at five.
Her name meant the sea, but she drowned in blood."
She was a whisper in the dark, a shadow slipping through the cracks of the law.
A name feared. A ghost never caught.
He was the one sent to bring her in-Trinay Shukla, an officer bound by duty, justice, and a past he never speaks of.
She ran.
He chased.
But the more he chased, the deeper he fell.
Kailani was everything he shouldn't want-dangerous, untouchable, a storm that could ruin him.
And yet, every time she slipped away, it felt like losing something he never had the right to claim.
But fate isn't kind to those who dance between love and destruction.
When the past unravels, and buried secrets claw their way back,
the line between hunter and hunted shatters.
In the end, only one question remains-
Will they destroy each other or surrender to the fire that has always burned between them?
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