23 parts Ongoing Lily Malen was never meant to be seen.
She was trained to obey without question. To smile on command. To lie still and survive the kind of hell that strips a girl of her name, her past, her voice.
She was property. Invisible. Disposable.
Until she ended up in his house.
Adrian Rossetti lives in a world of cold steel and quieter sins-where power is currency, loyalty is bought in blood, and monsters wear silk ties. At twenty-two, he's already carved his name into the underworld with bone-deep precision. Emotionless. Untouchable. Absolute.
Lily is a mistake. One the House should have buried.
But Adrian sees her.
And the moment he does, he doesn't want to let her go.
Not to save her.
To destroy her.
To peel back the pretty, obedient layers and see what she looks like when she breaks. To ruin the untouched thing fate dropped in his lap just to see if she bleeds differently.
But Lily is softer than anyone he's known. And somehow, softer is worse. Because she isn't just breaking beneath him-she's making him feel. And Adrian Rossetti does not feel.
He punishes. He controls. He owns.
And if he's not careful, Lily Malen might ruin him first.
