“Every mark on your skin, every tear you cry, and every breath you take... still belongs to me, Haze.” To the elite world, Nicholas Vance is an untouchable icon - the cold, ruthlessly brilliant billionaire who single-handedly resurrected his family's failing legacy into a global empire. Men fear him, women desire him, and rivals bow before him. No one knows the dark, suffocating secrets haunting his past... or the real person hiding behind his tailored suits. When Hazel Sterling, an innocent small-town girl desperate for a job, steps into his corporate tower, she unwittingly walks straight into a predator's trap. One glance at her timid eyes, and Nicholas's possessive instincts ignite into an unhinged addiction. He buys her world. He traps her in his golden cage. He dominates her body and steals her heart, leaving her breathless in the dark. Hazel thought it was love. She endured his coldness, his unpredictable moods, and his possessive touch, clinging to the fragile hope that she could save his broken soul. She didn't know she was merely a toy to numb his dark secrets. When his cold ego takes its toll, Hazel suffers a blow that shatters her completely. Broken, bleeding, and humiliated... she vanishes into thin air. Then came the day Nicholas saw her again. She wasn't crying. She wasn't trembling. And worst of all, that she was smiling in the arms of another man. Something inside Nicholas snaps violently. The cold titan drops to his knees as his world turns into an agonizing, jealous hell. He will burn cities, launch ruthless warfare, and drag her back to him even if he has to bleed for it. "You can hate me all you want, sweetie... But no one gets to keep what's mine." Just when the walls between them begin to crumble and everything slowly starts falling into place, a silent clock ticks away in the background. A truth that neither of them sees coming, and one that time won't let them rewrite.