MONSTER behind the MASK
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Last published Tue, Jun 24, 2025
She thought she was just here to organize his secrets.
He knew she was the only one who could survive them.
When ELARA QUINN accepts a quiet job archiving a personal library of reclusive billionaire LUCIEN VALE, she expects dusty books not a home wrapped in shadows and a man wrapped in secrets..
Everyone says he's a monster behind wealth and charm, But monsters don't look at u like that.
Monsters don't protect you like he does.
As the walls close in, so does he and Elara must choose and decide : run from the darkness or fall into it...
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