AUTHOR'S NOTE
This is NOT a clean romance. Please remember that this is strictly a work of fiction and for your smut pleasure. I do NOT condone any situations or actions that take place between these characters. This is an adult, dark romance not suitable for anyone under the age of eighteen.
If you don't have any triggers, feel free to skip if you have no triggers, please read below.
Trigger Warnings include but are not limited to:
. Graphic depictions of human trafficking/kidnapping
. Forced Captivity,
. Violent Assault
. Psychological Manipulation
. Grooming
. Power Imbalance,
. No safe word given or used
. Sexual Asphyxiation (breath play)
. Graphic Violence and Gore
. Gun Violence
. Assassination/Murder
. Explicit Sexual Scene
– – –
Kenji Soma does not care about your moral boundaries. He takes what he wants, including a broken girl he saved only to claim as his own. If this is not the kind of hero you want in a dark romance, then you will not like this book.
– – –
To the readers who find beauty in the broken and poetry in the pain. You see the allure in the monster and understand that the deepest connections are forged in fire, not sunlight. This is for you. Never apologize for the dark corners of your mind—that's where the most interesting stories are born. Now, let's get beautifully ruined together.
– – –
PROLOGUE
A POSSESSION is not claimed lightly. Only an absolute act of violence will solidify the claim over something found in the darkness.
He is an Owner, believes in Order, knows when to Punish, and is a God.
A claim must be witnessed to be meaningful,but it can be challenged at any time. To prove his right, he must erase all prior marks of ownership. But not all men are built to possess. Some are crueler, more patient, more obsessive than others.
They are tested to see the depth of their fixation.
They are pushed to violence to prove their dominance.
They are willing to stain their soul to show their commitment.
Nothing except a life will suffice.
Morals are not just forgotten; they are slaughtered.
The Incident:
An attempt to defile what is not yours is the highest offense.
When the man laid hands on Nicole, he unknowingly presented her as a challenge. Her act of defiance—the wild, accidental swing that ended him—was the trial.
She passed. She proved her strength, and in doing so, made herself worthy of a higher caliber of owner.
The Obsession:
A true owner does not desire something broken.He desires something he can break himself. The sight of her, marked by another's violence but blazing with a fight that was not yet extinguished, was the initiation.
He saw the canvas, already scarred, and knew he alone would be the artist to complete the ruin. His obsession is not to heal, but to corrupt so perfectly that every tremor of her fear, every gasp of her pleasure, becomes a prayer whispered in his name.