Henceforth, you will live here. You belong to me now."Jack Harris was twenty two and already finished with living when Ryan Thompson found him stealing bread in a Stone City alley. Ryan is the kind of man the city fears in silence. Powerful. Controlled. Dangerous. He takes Jack not out of kindness but out of certainty — the certainty that this trembling boy belongs to him. Jack resists. Jack runs. Jack fights with everything his empty hands can offer. But Stone City is bleeding. A rival mafia is rising. And the past Jack never knew he had is about to pull him deeper into Ryan's world than any chain ever could. Escape was never really the question. The question was always — what would Jack choose when he finally had the chance?3. CHARACTERS