Reflections Of Ruin
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MatureOngoing4h 52m
Last published Fri, Aug 7, 2026
"Let me make it simple for you, Aeliora. I'm the monster, and I'm the cage. I'm both."
Aeliora Ellison deals in variables, logic, and cold, hard numbers. As a systems architect, she knows how to dissect a problem before it can destroy her. But when her world fractures and a lethal corporate Board marks her family for liquidation, her bulletproof logic fails. To save her nine-year-old brother, Leo, she is forced to sign a brutal ninety-day merger contract with the one man she should fear most.
Enter Nyxen Crowe.
The "Boy-King." The God of Ruin. An apex predator wrapped in a tailored CEO suit, carrying a legacy carved from ink, blood, and old-money secrets. He isn't a savior; he's an executioner. He claims he's keeping Aeliora and her brother hidden within the stone walls of his heavily fortified estate. But as the line between sanctuary and prison begins to blur, Aeliora realizes she's trapped in a cage with the very monster who holds the keys.
While lethal watchers circle the perimeter and secrets bleed from the marble floors, a dangerous psychological game of cat-and-mouse ignites behind closed doors. Nyxen is determined to temper Aeliora into a weapon sharp enough to face the devils at the gate.
But Aeliora is carrying a secondary heartbeat. A hidden secret given to her by her mother's past. A key that could tear the Crowe empire down to the bedrock.
Aeliora must play the part of the perfect, ruined angel fiancée. She must learn to navigate Nyxen's suffocating, obsessive proximity and a sensory assault that her body is traitorously beginning to crave. But in a house built on graves, where past and present bleed together, she has to figure out the ultimate unknown before her ninety days run out:
Is Nyxen Crowe shielding her from the abyss... or is he the one dragging her into it?
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