Chapter 1

I thought monsters lived in nightmares.
Then I met him.

Rudra is powerful, feared, and impossible to defy.
When he took me into his mansion, I thought it was to save me.
I was wrong.

His kindness hides chains.
His touch burns like fire and freezes like ice.
And his love... it's the kind that leaves marks you can't see,
but feel every time you breathe.

I should hate him.
I should run.
But every time I try, I end up right where he wants me
in his arms, in his shadow...
in his control.

This isn't a love story.
It's a trap I can't escape.

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