“You dosed the collar.” “I dosed the man who thought I’d kneel.” When Dr. Elvira Petrova, a neurotoxin prodigy with bloodstained secrets, is captured by the man who ordered her mentor’s death, she expects chains. Instead, she’s offered a deal—and a velvet collar laced with poison. Soren Volkan is no ordinary captor. Cold-blooded mafia heir turned biotech magnate, he sees obedience not as a command—but as an experiment. Elvira? She’s his favourite test subject. In the heart of a snow-laced estate, where security is airtight and every smile has a trigger, Elvira must play the role of the captive scientist—while plotting his collapse from within. But when their chemical attraction combusts into something darker, and a toxin from her past resurfaces in the form of his dead wife, Elvira realises: She may not be the predator here. She may be the weapon. Enemies-to-Lovers Collared & Captive Dark Mafia Romance Slow-Burn Seduction Hidden Past & Secret Experimentation If you loved Twisted Games, Vicious, or The Devil’s Pawn, this is your next obsession. ……