What the Silence Buried

He speaks like fire. She shatters like glass. But when secrets resurface, even the strongest facades will crack.
Alerra Liamore is more than a billionaire CEO, he's a weapon in a suit, forged in silence and sharpened by betrayal. Cold, cruel, and impossible to love, his empire thrives on control... until a buried past resurfaces in the form of a single photograph, and a message written in red ink:
"You buried the past, but the grave was shallow."

Elyssa Amelya is a high-powered lawyer with a quiet soul and a history she's buried beneath success. Born of Korean and Malaysian blood, she's calm, brilliant, and deadly in a courtroom but terrified of one thing: raised voices. Her childhood trauma still haunts her, echoing in every argument, every confrontation. She built a life on silence.

When she steps into Alerra's boardroom for a merger, she doesn't expect war.
He doesn't expect to be disarmed by someone so fragile yet so unbreakable.

What begins as verbal sparring soon spirals into obsession, twisted trust, and a bond neither of them wanted. But as Elyssa gets closer to the man behind the empire, she uncovers fragments of a past no one dares speak about corpses in files, blood in boardrooms, and names that were supposed to stay erased.

The deeper she digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Because someone is watching them both. Someone who knows the full story behind Alerra's rise... and Elyssa's silence.

And when the final truth surfaces love won't save them.

Only trust will.

But how do you trust a man built on secrets?
And how do you love someone who kills without guilt...
...including the person you used to be?