Somewhere Near You

In Velmora City, power is quiet-and danger is quieter.
Arielle Voss never intended to stand out. As an intern at Noctryx Corporation, she keeps her head down, does her work, and ignores the whispers surrounding the company's elusive CEO.

For four months, she never sees him.
But he sees her.
When Arielle is unexpectedly promoted to work directly under Sylus, she prepares to face the man everyone fears-cold, unreadable, untouchable.

What she finds instead is something far more unsettling:
Not a monster.
Not a tyrant.
But a man holding himself together with terrifying precision.

As Arielle moves closer into his world, she begins to notice the cracks-subtle, dangerous, impossible to ignore.
And without meaning to...
She becomes the only thing that steadies him.

But getting close to someone like Sylus was never the danger.
The danger is what happens when he starts needing her.