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He gives me his cigarette with his number on it. "Keep it" he says. "It will burn you but you'll keep coming back for more."

Roshni Das only ever wanted two things.

Freedom and her university degree.

Being a daughter of a prostitute and being one herself wasn't easy especially when the brothel she grew up was ruled by a ruthless man. Roshni has spent her entire life believing silence is the survival, where women are taught to lower their head, obey their masters and submit without a question. Their life was chosen for them and disregarding the rule would only lead to execution.

She has never seen the world beyond the village gates, never experienced a city, never learned what freedom truly feels like.

On the night of her eighteenth birthday, her mother risks everything to help her escape.

Thrown into the world she knows nothing about, Roshni struggles to navigate crowded streets, university life and people who speak with confidence she's never possessed. Wide-eyed and painfully innocent, she mistakes danger for excitement.

Leon Salvatore.

A man whose name is spoken in whispers. A man who doesn't ask for power, he takes it. Cold, calculating and dangerously charismatic, Leon sits at the heart of one of the most fear organization. Blood has built his empire and mercy isn't part of his vocabulary.

She was supposed to be another piece for his mission, instead she becomes his greatest distraction.

But some addiction doesn't start with a cigarette. It starts with a fate.

Will he give her a taste of freedom or will he ruin her?

-dark romance
-Mafia and crimes
-good girl x bad boy
-enemies to lovers

*mature*

Don't report me, I warned you

This story contains sensitive topics such as sexual and physical abuse, misogyny and trauma. Read it at your own risk. The trigger warnings will be put in those chapters.