People say monsters hide in the dark.

They're wrong.

Some monsters walk in daylight wearing perfect suits and charming smiles.

I didn't know that when I first met him.

I was just a bookstore assistant trying to live a quiet life...

until a stranger burst through the door, bleeding and desperate.

That stranger was Lucien Vale.

I helped him.

I shouldn't have.

Because the men chasing him weren't ordinary criminals.

They belonged to the most ruthless crime empire in the city.

And Lucien wasn't their victim.

He was something far worse.

A man they feared.

A man they wanted dead.

Now I'm trapped in the middle of a war I never asked for.

Lucien is dangerous cold, calculating, and completely ruthless.

The terrifying part?

He doesn't deny it.

He watches me like a hunter studying his prey.

Like he's already decided I belong to him.

I try to escape his world.

I try to stay away from him.

But Lucien Vale doesn't let things go once they catch his interest.

Especially not people.

And the deeper I fall into his darkness, the more I realize something horrifying:

The criminals chasing him may not be the real monsters.

Lucien Vale might be.

And the worst mistake I ever made...

Was letting him see me.

Because monsters don't forget.

And they never stop hunting.