Description
She escaped the lab-but not her past. When Ariana wakes up in a blood-slicked corridor with no memory and a child's trembling hand in hers, she knows only one thing: they're being hunted. Marked as failed experiments by the secret organization known as Black Circle, Ariana and Seraph-the quiet, brilliant boy who trusts her blindly-are now fugitives. Enter Damien: cold, controlled, and lethal. A man with secrets darker than hers and eyes that burn with something she doesn't dare name. He offers protection, but at a cost-obedience, silence, and complete surrender. But the deeper they run, the more Ariana remembers... And the more she begins to question everything: her role in the child's creation, Damien's true purpose, and the haunting truth behind why she was ever let out alive. Caught between the fire of a forbidden attraction and the fury of a twisted past, Ariana must decide-will she uncover the truth and destroy the man who owns her heart... or trust him to help her destroy the monster she used to be?
Chapter 1 - The Room Where He Waited
