Trigger/Content Warning: This story contains mature themes and explicit content intended for adult audiences(18+). Reader discretion is advised. It includes elements such as BDSM dynamics, explicit sexual content, toxic family relationships, occasional violence and strong language. This is not a fluffy romance. It is intense, raw and messy, and explores the darker side of desire. ***** “Take off your dress, Meadow.” “Why?” “Because your ex is watching,” he said, leaning back into his seat. “And I want him to see what he lost.” ••••*••••*••••* Meadow Russell was supposed to get married to the love of her life in Vegas. Instead, she walked in on her twin sister riding her fiance. One drink at the bar turned to ten. One drunken mistake turned into reality. And one stranger’s offer turned into a contract that she signed with shaking hands and a diamond ring. Alaric Ashford is the devil in a tailored Tom Ford suit. Billionaire CEO, brutal, possessive. A man born into an empire of blood and steel. He also suffers from a neurological condition—he can’t feel. Not objects, not pain, not even human touch. Until Meadow touches him, and he feels everything. And now he owns her. On paper and in his bed. She wants him to ruin her. Take what no one else could have. He wants control, obedience… revenge. But what starts as a transaction slowly turns into something Meadow never saw coming. Obsession, secrets that were never meant to surface, and a pain from the past that threatens to break everything. Alaric doesn’t share what’s his. Not his company. Not his wife. And definitely not his vengeance.

“The woman you threw away doesn’t exist anymore. The one standing before you? She came back to bury you.” ☀︎☀︎☀︎☀︎☀︎ On her twenty-fifth birthday, Kara Slade pushed her husband out of the path of a speeding car, only to wake up paralysed, confined to a wheelchair and abandoned by the same man that she had risked her life to protect. For three years, he humiliated her. His mistress taunted her. Her own son was turned against her. So, she disappeared. And when she did, they thought they had won. Now, she’s back. And she’s not the same woman they left to rot. She’s walking. She’s wealthier than they ever dreamed. And she’s here to destroy them, one by one. With Roman Sterling, a powerful billionaire with his own dark past—and her new husband—by her side, Kara will make her ex-husband and his new wife suffer, watch their empire crumble, and take back the son that was stolen from her. But revenge is never simple. And Roman is a dangerous man who plays by his own rules. He wants her. He will protect her. But can she trust him? Because the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes. Her accident wasn’t an accident at all. And the real enemy has been waiting for her return.