Haytham Mikhailov (MIKHAILOV SERIES #2)

NOT SUITABLE FOR MINOR 🔞

He lived a quiet life, a man of precision and control, tending to fragile lives in his veterinary clinic. Animals were loyal, predictable, and grateful-unlike people. Until she appeared.

A beautiful stranger carrying her dying cat. He saved the animal, gave it life again... only for her to disappear, leaving him with unpaid bills and an unforgettable face. He swore never to think of her again.

But destiny was cruel.

In a dim parking lot one evening, he returned to find his beloved car scarred by a brutal scratch. And there she was-standing pale and nervous beside a shattered bicycle. The same girl. The thief. The liar. The ghost who haunted his memory.

This time, he would not let her escape.

He dragged her into his massive house, not out of mercy but punishment. She would pay for every debt, every sin, as his personal maid. Trapped under his roof, under his rules, she became his unwilling captive. But the longer she stayed, the more she set fire to the walls around his heart. Her sharp tongue both infuriated and entranced him, her beauty taunted him, and her quiet kindness unraveled the darkness he thought he had mastered.

What began as vengeance soon twisted into obsession. And in the game of power, punishment, and forbidden desire-one question remained.

Would she ever love the man who kept her prisoner?