Valerie Thorne. The girl who once was gentle, the sweetest ever I known. And now looked at me like I burned the sky.
She was the light, too soft for the world I lived in, too good for the blood on my hands. But I never claimed to be anyone good. I never promised her good things. I only ever promised her one thing. That she was mine.
Her fear didn’...

Raven Blackwood was the man I liked since I was a child, made my heart race before I even knew what love meant. But childhood ends. Innocence fades. And Raven… Well. Raven became my worst nightmare.
Even the devil would sit back and take notes from him, when it came to torture, harm, use, and kill.
His grey eyes, hypnotic, dangerous, and...

“Is my presence that problematic to you, Rohini?”
“It’s not that I have a problem with your presence. But your presence is a security threat to me.”
He nodded. “What happened? I watched the execution earlier.”
“It would be you if you dared to do anything.”
Fear makes men rush. Confidence makes them loud. Strategy requires neither.
In the sacred city...