Little shadow

At just twenty years old, Delilah carries the kind of scars most people never see - memories of a childhood steeped in chaos, toxicity, alcoholism, and abuse. Her teenage years were a blur of survival, bad choices, and desperate attempts to outrun a world that never gave her a chance. She grew up believing she would never be more than the broken girl life had shaped.

Until Killian Daegon.

Quiet. Possessive. Obsessive.

A man who watches from the shadows and never looks away.

Killian has been there long before Delilah ever noticed him - learning her habits, memorising her silences, tracking the way she disappears when she thinks no one is paying attention. He doesn't pursue loudly. He waits. He claims slowly. And once his focus settles, it never strays.

His darkness is deliberate, controlled, and consuming. Beneath his cold restraint lives a devotion that borders on dangerous - a need to protect, possess, and keep what is his at all costs.

Delilah has always been drawn to the dark. To stories of obsession and the thrill of the chase. She's spent years wondering if something is wrong with her - if wanting intensity, control, and devotion makes her damaged in ways she can't fix.

Killian never asks her to be softer.
Never tells her to want less.

Instead, he makes her understand something she's never known before:
that there is nothing wrong with her at all.

What happens when a girl who learned to hide meets a man who refuses to stop watching?
And what if the shadow she fears... is the one that was always meant to hold her?