I wanted death. He gave me something worse, hope.

I was numb. Broken. A ghost haunting the ruins of my best friend's death, dragging guilt like a second skin. The night I witnessed a murder in a dark alley should've ended me. Instead, it awakened him.

Adriano De Luca. A killer in a tailored suit. Eyes like cold fire. The devil who followed me home. He should've silenced me. Instead, he claimed me.

Now I'm not his hostage, I'm his obsession. His possession. His twisted salvation. Every brutal kiss, every cruel command, drags me deeper into a world where pain feels like penance... and pleasure feels like rebirth. I should run. I should scream. But all I want is to obey.

Because somewhere between my ruin and his darkness, we found something neither of us expected: a reason to live.