Claimed Before Memory

Hello everyone

This is my book, written for the Ongoing Wattpad ONC 2026.

Just like my first, this story will explore dark romance and BDSM.

I would truly appreciate your comments and feedback on this book. If I make mistakes whether in pacing, character development, or plot direction please let me know. Your thoughts help me grow as a writer.

I would also love your ideas for future chapters as the story unfolds.

This novella is based on the following contest prompt -

Prompt 18 (Main Prompt)

At eighteen, you begin dreaming of a stranger who feels like your other half. When they finally appear in real life, everything you thought you knew about love and reality begins to shift.

❤️‍🔥Summary of book -

Since childhood, she has dreamed of a faceless man.

He does not belong to her world. His voice carries a foreign edge ancient, controlled, unreadable. She has never met him, yet in every dream he stands too close, watching her as if she was never meant to escape him.

The dreams did not protect her.
They marked her.

They narrowed her choices. Redirected her steps. Led her toward something that felt less like fate and more like a claim.

At eighteen, the face finally revealed itself.

His eyes.
His hair.
The sharp, merciless line of his jaw.

And when she meets him in real life, there is no disbelief. Only recognition something older than memory.
He looks at her with quiet certainty.

As if she belongs to him.
Only him.

As if the world itself would be foolish enough to try and take what is his.

He reads her fear before it rises. Understands her silence without permission. In front of him, she feels like prey.

But prey can be dangerous.

There is something inside her cold, disciplined, lethal. Something he has not uncovered yet.

If loving her means burning everything else to the ground, he will not hesitate.

Some bonds are not chosen.
Some are written in blood.

And when fate binds two predators together, the world is collateral.