The Debt

For years, her family hid one terrible secret: their wealth and safety were bought with a promise they never intended to explain to her.

When her grandfather brings her to an abandoned cemetery at night, she expects another secret meeting about the family debt. Instead, she finds h/n waiting between the graves-a feared mafia boss in a black suit who does not want money.

He wants her.

Terrified and betrayed, she runs, only to discover that escaping him is nearly impossible. He already knows her favourite café, the hour her bedroom light turns off, the streets she avoids after dark, and every man who ever came close enough to become dangerous.

For years, she thought luck had protected her.

In reality, it was always him.

But protection without permission feels dangerously close to possession. h/n has watched her from the shadows, interfered with her life, and quietly removed anyone he believed might hurt her. He claims she was never payment, yet every time he calls her mine, the darkness inside his devotion becomes impossible to ignore.

Now she must choose between the family who traded her future to save themselves and the dangerous man who has wanted her long before she knew his name.

He promises he will never hurt her.

He never promises to let her go.
As enemies close in and old betrayals surface, she may have to trust the man she should fear most. But the closer she gets to him, the harder it becomes to separate protection from obsession, safety from control, and terror from the forbidden attraction growing between them.

Because h/n never wanted the money her family owed.

He wanted the girl they promised him.