Teeth and Chains

Angelus Vale is the quiet one. Silver-white hair, silver eyes, a silence so absolute it frightens people more than words ever could. Untouchable not just because his brother Kylo hides inhuman strength beneath a normal boy's build and a crimson stripe of warning in black hair - but because Angel himself is beautiful the way a blade is beautiful, and his cold stare could stop a weaker heart mid-beat. What no one knows is what hides beneath the frost: a masochist who has spent nineteen years starving, waiting for someone unafraid of the dark in him.

Christian Kane doesn't love. He never has. A diagnosed psychopath with red hair, hypnotic blue eyes, a lethal grin, and fangs sharp enough to make you believe in monsters, Christian feels no love - only *possession*. When he wants something, it becomes his, and he guards what is his the way wild things do: without mercy, without limit, without hesitation. He is a sadist to the marrow, and he recognizes Angel's hunger before anyone can name it - because it's the mirror of his own.

Christian's devotion comes with a warning: he will never say *I love you*, because it's a lie he refuses to tell. He will say *you're mine*, and mean it in a way that has a body count. Anyone who stands between him and the one he's decided to keep - a bully, a rival, a brother - will learn exactly how far he'll go to protect what belongs to him. And Angel, who has never been chosen by anyone, discovers that being possessed by Christian Kane is the first time in his life he's ever been truly, completely *seen*.

A story about two boys made of teeth and silver - one who wants to be kept, one who was born to keep - and the dangerous, magnetic pull between a masochist who aches for the edge and the sadist who holds it.