The Altar's Runaway

The Altar's Runaway

He was promised to a god. He ran into a devil instead.

Hong Joshua was born to kneel--raised in the glittering chokehold of power, promised since childhood to Choi Seungcheol, heir to the empire that owns half the nation and all of its shadows.
Theirs was a union written in contracts and sealed in blood, a marriage meant to merge kingdoms and bury him alive in silk.

But the night before the vows, Joshua runs.

Barefoot, breathless, a saint turned sinner beneath the moonlight. He trades his surname for a sin, his destiny for a dirt road, and crashes straight into the man who shouldn't exist--Lee Seokmin.

A biker with a past that smells like gasoline and gunfire. A man who helps people disappear for a price and keeps his heart locked behind the roar of an engine.

Joshua offers him money. Seokmin offers him a way out.

But somewhere between forged passports and stolen motel rooms, the lines blur--between safety and obsession, between hunger and ruin.

Because Seokmin doesn't want to save him.
He wants to keep him.

And maybe Joshua doesn't want to be saved at all.