I Will Never Let You Go

Bastian Sinclair didn't ask for permission.
He didn't knock on doors; he simply kicked them down.
When Lyra Steele's father made the mistake of stealing valuable documents from him, the price wasn't money.
It was her.
Lyra-a twenty-eight-year-old student with a soul broken since childhood-was handed over as living payment to the man who controlled the city. Cold, ruthless, and soulless, Bastian Sinclair didn't look at her as a woman.
He looked at her as something that already belonged to him.
From the very first moment, Lyra hated him with every fiber of her being. She hated his arrogance, his absolute power, and the way his mere presence suffocated her. But above all, she hated how her body reacted whenever he got too close.
Bastian felt no love. He felt obsession.
A sick, absolute obsession. He didn't want to heal her or save her. He only wanted to possess every broken piece of her: her fear, her rage, and her invisible scars. The more she defied him-the more she tried to flee-the deeper his desire grew to break her and claim her.
He wouldn't change for her.
He would never cease to be the monster he was.
And Lyra-trapped between her trauma and the dark attraction she felt toward her captor-would discover a terrifying truth:
Perhaps the only place where she no longer had to pretend she was okay...
was right beside the very devil who whispered against her skin:
"I Will Never Let You Go."