Rafail was a dangerous man, scarred enough to make people shake in their boots, but for Ekaterina Petrov, he was her muse. He was there to protect someone else, but ended up looking after her like she was his real mission and his only purpose in life. The visible age difference kept him leashed, but he craved her more than he craved to kill. Until he found out about her little secret and played her better than the books she read. Ekaterina thought Rafail was the man of her life until she discovered his dark reality, however it was too late to back out. He already had her caged because the Lunatic, himself, was unleashed now, and he would do anything to keep her his. **“A standalone spin-off of The Pakhan’s Bride.”**

She was trapped in the darkness. He ruled over it. Zarya Rogov, born to be a sacrifice. Always kept in the dark, she learned to live with it. To the world, she was just another spoiled princess, but only the walls of the Rogov's mansion knew the true tale of her unending sorrows. She thought escape would mean freedom. She thought the world outside would save her, only to realize she loved the mansion walls that trapped her more than to be caught by the actual beast out there. But it was too late, she was trapped again, and his cage was cruel, colder, and reeked of wrath. Sergei Morozov, the Pakhan feared by all. The man who walked over those he crushed mercilessly. His next target was her father, and to crush that old man, he captured his daughter, made her his wife, and decided to keep her as just a mere accessory in his mansion, just a mere caretaker for his son. That was his plan, until he found himself unable to look away from her, he found himself craving her, loosening his tie in her vicinity just because she was too hard to resist. He hated the feeling because he promised himself that he would be the one to take her life and no one else, not even god. But one thing he knew for sure, he craved her more than he craved to sin, and she was worse than a sin, she was addiction, and he was hooked. WARNINGS: FORCED MARRIAGE. NON-CONSENSUAL RELATIONSHIP. POWER IMBALANCE. PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIPULATION. OBSESSIVE/POSSESSIVE MALE LEAD. GORE.